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Dark painted landscape of a glacier under a thunderstorm, with a lightning bolt striking rocks and churning water below.

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Caspar Wolf - Gewitter am Grindelwaldgletscher - um 1774-75 - Aarau, Caspar Wolf (1774), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A dark, dramatic landscape shows a jagged glacier and rocky cliffs beneath a storm-laden sky, with a zigzag lightning bolt striking down from a glowing yellow-lit cloud. Turbulent white water and small figures at the lower edge suggest the scale of the scene.

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