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| Title: | At Dawn |
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| Notes: | First Sunday of Advent, Year A: "Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires." Romans 13:11-14
This painting by the Belgian artist, Charles Hermans, caused a sensation when it was first exhibited because of its critical social realism. Hermans contrasts a group of elegantly-dressed party-goers at the end of a long night, spilling out onto the sidewalk. They block the path of early morning laborers, whose stable, hardworking values are communicated by their working garb and lunch pails. The contrast is further underscored by the spilled ash refuse bag lying next to the bouquet of flowers on the street in the foreground. Charles Hermans' body of work included many works of a religious nature, as he developed an interest in the activities of the monastic orders when in Italy.
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| Date: | 1875 |
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| Artist: | Hermans, Charles, 1839-1924 |
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| Building: | Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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| City/Town: | Brussels
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| Country: | Belgium
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| Scripture: | Romans 13:11-14
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| Lectionary links: | AAdvt01
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| General Subject: | Poverty
Wealth
Inequality
Dawn
Morning
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| Copyright Source: | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Hermans.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: | Hermans, Charles, 1839-1924. At Dawn, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=53076 [retrieved January 13, 2025]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Hermans.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 53076
Last Updated: 2021-09-07 19:36:07
Record Created: 2007-10-24 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, 2004. |
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