Aurora Borealis

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Aurora Borealis is a famous 1865 landscape painting by American artist Frederic Edwin Church that dramatically depicts the northern lights over an Arctic scene.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf landscape painting
painting
artist Frederic Edwin Church
artisticStyle Romanticism
collection Smithsonian American Art Museum
surface form: Smithsonian American Art Museum collection
countryOfOrigin United States of America
creator Frederic Edwin Church
creatorNationality American
depicts Arctic landscape
aurora borealis
dramatic lighting
exploration ship
icebergs
mountains
night sky
Aurora Borealis self-linksurface differs
surface form: northern lights

polar region
sea ice
ship
genre Hudson River School
landscape art
marine art
hasPart distant mountains
foreground ice
sky with aurora
inception 1865
languageOfTitle English
location Smithsonian American Art Museum
materialUsed oil paint
movement Hudson River School
surface canvas
title Aurora Borealis self-linksurface differs

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Aurora Borealis depicts Aurora Borealis self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Aurora Borealis (painting)
this entity surface form: northern lights
Bodø hasPhenomenon Aurora Borealis
this entity surface form: northern lights
Lapland knownFor Aurora Borealis
this entity surface form: Northern Lights
Lofoten knownFor Aurora Borealis
this entity surface form: Northern Lights
Nordland knownFor Aurora Borealis
this entity surface form: northern lights
Northern Canada knownFor Aurora Borealis
this entity surface form: Northern Lights
Northern Norway knownFor Aurora Borealis
this entity surface form: Northern Lights
Northwest Territories knownFor Aurora Borealis
Vesterålen knownFor Aurora Borealis
this entity surface form: northern lights
Frederic Edwin Church notableWork Aurora Borealis
Frederic notableWork Aurora Borealis
subject surface form: Frederic Edwin Church
Churchill skyPhenomenon Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis title Aurora Borealis self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Aurora Borealis (painting)
Tromsø Arctic Cathedral viewpointFor Aurora Borealis
this entity surface form: northern lights