Pediment for the Brooklyn Museum
American Art
On View: Eastern Parkway Façade
MEDIUM
Indiana limestone
DATES
1914
ACCESSION NUMBER
10.232
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
To the viewer's left, three figures represent Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. On the viewer's right stand Geology, Astronomy, and Biology, the three basic sciences of the earth, sky, and nature. A sphinx on the extreme right symbolizes Knowledge. A peacock at the left is, according to D.C. French, an "emblem of beauty in the appearance of things," as associated with art.
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