Word: erupted
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...vistas were highly edited pastiches, ecological anthologies. But this enhanced their power for the 19th century viewer, who wanted epitomes of nature, filled with moral messages. These Church supplied in abundance. He never actually saw his volcano erupt -- it did so on Sept. 13, 1853, three days after he left the area -- but when he painted Cotopaxi in 1862 in full eruption, he could not have left much doubt that this scene also held a lesson for an America plunged into hatred and despair by the Civil War. The morning sun rises through the plume of smoke and ash, irresistibly...