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The Volcano School

The Volcano School

Painters who got close enough to feel the heat

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Mar 28, 2024
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Untitled (Dripping Lava) by Jules Tavernier, 1886

How much heat and danger could you endure to paint and tell the story of an erupting volcano?

Ever since Pliny the Younger wrote his eyewitness account…

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