Dreaming big, Thomas Cole paints 4,500 years of architectural history in The Architect's Dream

Thomas Cole, _The Architect 's Dream_, 1840, oil on canvas, 134.7 x 213.6 cm (Toledo Museum of Art) speakers: Dr. Lawrence W. Nichols, William Hutton Senior Curator of European and American Painting, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker. [See learning resources here.](https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/cole-dream-sa/)

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