Skeleton King with Sign
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Art of a skeleton king, complete with crown, cape, and scepter. Skeleton is holding a sign that says “the mirror which flatters not.” Image is located to the right of the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and to the left of computer-generated, three dimensional shapes.</span>
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
<a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1896-1230-185" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Payne: <em>The Mirror which Flatters Not</em></a>
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Seven-headed Dragon
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Illustration of a seven-headed dragon originally made by Albrecht Dürer. The dragon is placed near the feet of the Buddha.
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:11._Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer,_Apokalypsa,_IX._Apokalyptick%C3%A1_%C5%BEena,_N%C3%A1rodn%C3%AD_galerie_v_Praze.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Albrecht Dürer: <em>Apokalypsa IX</em></a>
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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