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This artist depicted a lord's party leaving a castle at sunrise and then hanging their heads in defeat at sunset in the paired paintings The Departure and The Return. A volcano (0[1])erupts behind a glimmering mountain (20[1]0[1])in this artist's (20[1])Expulsion (20[1])from the Garden (20[1])of Eden. (20[3]0[3])A (0[1])fierce (0[1])tempest (0[2])provides the background of a painting by this (20[1])artist that shows a bridge collapsing under the weight of a crowd and a headless statue (20[3])posed with its (20[2])arm (20[2])raised (20[2])like the (20[2])(*) Borghese (10[1])Gladiator. (10[4])A series by this artist (10[1])contains a (10[1])rocky outcrop (0[1])in the background (10[2])of all five of its (0[1])paintings that depict the rise and fall of a civilization. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])name this painter (10[1])of the Course of Empire series who founded (10[1])the Hudson (10[1])River School. (10[2])■END■ (10[5])

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