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This week on the lectures and history podcast, Santa Clara University Art History Professor

Andrea Pappas explains the Hudson River School, a mid-19th century movement

that shaped American landscape painting. According to Professor Pappas, the movement celebrates the

beauty and grandeur of nature. She explained that Hudson River School artists not only captured

breathtaking scenes, but also inspired early efforts to establish national parks and wilderness preserves.

More after this.

So what we are going to do today is we are going to be looking at American landscape in roughly the

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