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The Heart of the Andes is a large oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). More than five feet (1.7 metres) high and almost ten feet (3 metres) wide it depicts an idealized landscape in the South American Andes where Church traveled on two occasions. Its exhibition in 1859 was a sensation and the painting established Church as the foremost landscape painter in the United States.
