| Title: | Stream in the Forest |
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| Notes: | "The laments and praises of Psalms 42-43 work because of their haunting imagery and sustained structures -- the deer panting for flowing streams, tears as constant food, and the repeated "Why are you cast down, O my soul?" typical of a complaint psalm, the grievance-juxtaposed-with-confidence pattern dominates...Augustine's "Our souls are restless till they find their rest in you" might well trace its origin to the far more vivid psalmist's simile, "As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God" (42:1). This sylvan image, reminiscent of the Song of Solomon, invites the reader/worshiper into an extended lyric that wanders through both psalms, alternating between extremes of questions, lament and complaint and confident hope and vindication." (Bartlett/Taylor, 155) |
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| Date: | 1862 |
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| Artist: | Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877 |
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| Building: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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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: | Psalm 42
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| Lectionary links: | CProp07
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| General Subject: | Animals
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| Attribution: | Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877. Stream in the Forest, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=51132 [retrieved October 12, 2024]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Courbet_-_Stream_in_the_Forest_-_55.982_-_Museum_of_Fine_Arts.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 51132
Last Updated: 2021-03-02 07:33:47
Record Created: 2007-04-19 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Feasting on the Word: Year C, Vol. 3 |
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| Author: | Bartlett, David L. and Barbara Brown Taylor |
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| Publisher: | Westminster John Knox Press |
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| Date: | 2010 |
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