The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has a set of four paintings by nineteenth century Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole entitled "The Voyage of Life". The works are an allegory of the four stages of human life: childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. The paintings follow a voyager who travels in a boat on a river through the mid-1800s American wilderness. Every generation has its own take on mortality.
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