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The Voyage of Life: The Sacred Vision of Thomas Cole

The Voyage of Life: The Sacred Vision of Thomas Cole

Hart, Addison Hodges

Hardcover

American Art - GeneralGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

ISBN10: 1621389154
ISBN13: 9781621389156
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: Mar 11 2023
Pages: 116
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.44 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

In his famous series of four paintings, the great American father of the Hudson River School of art, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), depicted the life of a single representative human Soul as a voyage from birth to death-each painting illustrating a further bend in the river of life: Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and finally, Old Age. Cole supplemented his series with a long poem (reproduced at the end of this volume) along the lines of Dante's Divine Comedy or Newman's Dream of Gerontius, elucidating the meaning of his art. Drawing upon these resources together with the religious and philosophical influences of his time, Addison Hodges Hart succeeds in making The Voyage of Life poignantly applicable to us in the here and now. In Hart's masterful hands, Cole's masterpiece comes alive as timeless wisdom, insight, even contemplative counsel. Like all genuine art, Cole's series communicates one human soul's truth to another, regardless of the distance in space, time, or worldview that may separate them.

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