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Visual Explorations

Philosophy is often presented as the fundamental interpretative tool, but art can also serve this role. Visual Explorations is the online art showcase of the Global Spiral. Every monthly issue will present a “visual exploration” through painting, sculpture, photography, and images from the sciences, expanding our understanding of foundational questions.

Education

By Louis Comfort Tiffany

Pictured above is the central panel of "Education" (1890), a thirty-foot-wide stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios. Located in Linsley-Chittenden Hall at Yale University, it depicts Science (personified by Devotion, Labor, Truth, Research and Intuition) and Religion (personified by Purity, Faith, Hope, Reverence and Inspiration) in harmony, presided over by the central personification of "Light·Love·Life". [Wikimedia Commons]

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Published 2008.03.03

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