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Horizontes
ArtistFrancisco Antonio Cano Cardona
Year1913
MediumOil on canvas
LocationMuseo de Antioquia, Medellín

Horizons (Spanish: Horizontes) is a painting by Francisco Antonio Cano Cardona.[1] Horizons shows the idealized migrant family and it portrays a colono family –consisting of a husband, wife, and child– sitting on a bluff, surrounded by mountains. The three members of the family are often referred as a version of the Holy family, with the woman dressed in colors like the Virgin Mary, with a baby on her lap.[2] The gaze of the wife, child, and father are in the direction of the man's outstretched hand, which evokes Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, and that points toward an unseen horizon.[2]

References

  1. ^ Santiago Londoño Vélez; Francisco Antonio Cano (2002). La mano luminosa: vida y obra de Francisco Antonio Cano. Universidad Eafit. p. 115. ISBN 978-958-8173-16-0.
  2. ^ a b Nancy P. Appelbaum (2003). Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948. Duke University Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-8223-3092-9.