Tag: Georges de la Tour
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Cranium: the symbolic powers of the skull
F. Gonzalez-Crussi Chicago, Illinois, USA It Was a Man and a Pot. Georgia O’Keeffe. 1942. Crocker Art Museum Of all bodily parts, the head has traditionally enjoyed the greatest prestige. The Platonic Timaeus tells us that secondary gods (themselves created by the Demiurge) copied the round form of the universe to make the head,…