“The Departure” – Medieval Catholic Crusaders – Thomas Cole – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality dove We like it in a

We like it in a modest wooden frame with a stain or organic color

Across the Gospels

one of only 37 so far

(source: trinitadeimonti

Mary is to the side

“The Departure” – Medieval Catholic Crusaders – Thomas Cole – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality dove We like it in aThomas Cole painted a pair of pictures in 1837 showing a morning scene and an evening scene. Medieval Crusaders leave with high hopes and shiny, beautiful armor in the morning scene (The Departure) and a few stragglers return weary and wounded in the evening scene (The Return). In the first one, there is a statue of Mary and an old friar blessing them, and the architectural emphasis is the castle. In the evening scene, the same old friar is blessing