| Title: | Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? |
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| Notes: | A short essay on the artistic and spiritual meaning of this artwork is available from The Visual Commentary on Scripture, https://thevcs.org/philosophy-pleasure-and-folly/personal-philosophy?first=2321. French |
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| Date: | 1897-1898 |
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| Artist: | Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903 |
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| Building: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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| Material: | Paint |
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| City/Town: | Boston
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| State: | MA
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| Country: | United States
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| Scripture: | Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23
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| Person as Subject: | Qoheleth (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | CProp13
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| General Subject: | Visual Commentary on Scripture
Mystery
Wisdom
Sorrow
Knowledge
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| Copyright Source: | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gauguin_-_D%27ou_venons-nous_Que_sommes-nous_Ou_allons-nous.jpg |
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| Copyright Permission: | Please visit the URL in the Copyright Source field on this page for details about reusing this image. |
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| Attribution: | Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903. Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=50284 [retrieved December 12, 2024]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gauguin_-_D%27ou_venons-nous_Que_sommes-nous_Ou_allons-nous.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 50284
Last Updated: 2021-11-09 17:46:08
Record Created: 2007-03-19 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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