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The Birth Of Venus: A Long Labor Of Love
Angles from the IU Art Museum Podcast – Arts and Music
English - May 18, 2010 19:00 - 6 minutes - 2.77 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVisual Arts Arts Education Courses Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Since 1961, Robert Laurent’s Birth of Venus fountain has been the centerpiece of Showalter Plaza, the artistic core of Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. It’s a celebratory, modernist take on a classical subject that brings to mind Paul Manship’s Prometheus at New York’s Rockefeller Center skating rink.