Pediment for the Brooklyn Museum

Artist:Daniel Chester FrenchAdolph Alexander WeinmanPiccirilli Brothers

Medium: Indiana limestone

Dates:1914

Collections:

• American Art

Museum Location: Eastern Parkway Façade

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.

Brooklyn Museum