Thomas Cole, 1833 - The Titan's Goblet - fine art print

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The culmination of Cole's romantic fantasies, this work echoes the artist's other works of the period in its Italian derived scenery and its attempt to illustrate themes dealing with the grandeur of the past, the passage of time, and the encroachment of nature. Rejected by Cole's patron, Luman Reed, and subsequently owned by the artist John M. Falconer, the work defies full explanation. The massive, vegetation encrusted goblet around whose rim are found classical ruins, and on whose glassy surface boats sail, has been linked to Norse legend and Greek mythology. Theophilus Stringfellow, Jr. described it as a self-contained, microcosmic human world in the midst of vast nature, while Falconer linked the monumental stem of the goblet to the trunk of the Norse world-tree; he likened the cup to "the ramifying branches . . . which spread out and hold between them an ocean dotted with sails, surrounded by dense forests and plains." Other theories tie the fantastic forms to J. M. W. Turner's "Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus" (National Gallery, London), to Italian architecture and geological formations, or to the golden goblet of the sun-god Helios. The elevation and remove of the cup, rimmed with classical remnants, suggests the disassociation of the present, embodied in the surrounding landscape, from the pinnacle of creation which nourished its culture. Cole serves as intermediary, a role open only to the artist or poet, transcending the strictues of the immediate world to unite past and present.

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The work of art was painted by Thomas Cole. The beyond 180 year old original had the size: 19 3/8 x 16 1/8 in (49,2 x 41 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the technique for the artwork. This work of art is in the the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. The masterpiece, which is in the public domain is being included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Samuel P. Avery Jr., 1904. Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Samuel P. Avery Jr., 1904. On top of that, alignment is portrait with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Thomas Cole was a male painter of American nationality, whose style can be classified as Romanticism. The artist was born in the year 1801 in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, county and deceased at the age of 47 in 1848.

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