Illuminated Letters Featuring Jesus
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Illuminated letters featuring Jesus and animals. Collection is to the right of the Collection of Symbols and to the left of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Death of Samson</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Piano with Musical Notes
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two sets of piano keys with musical notes. Art is located below the collection of Circular Graphs and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">American Gothic</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> within the collection of money. </span></p>
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Braille Alphabet and Numbers
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Art of the braille alphabet and numbers on a white rectangle. Art is located to the left of the collection of money and to the right of</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> De Humani Corporis Fabrica’s</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Back Muscular Anatomy. </span></p>
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Collection of Crossword Puzzles
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Collection of crossword puzzles. Puzzles surround a depiction of Agni under the stairs.
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Depiction of Muhammed
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Circular representation of the prophet Muhammed. Art is located to the right of the large column and to the left of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty.</span></i>
James Sicner
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<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muhammad2.png " target="_blank" rel="noopener">Depiction of Muhammad</a>
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Calligraphy of Umar's Name
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Calligraphy of Umar’s name. Art is located to the left of the large column and to the right of Superman.
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
<em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rashidun_Caliphs_Umar_ibn_Al-Khatt%C4%81b_-_%D8%B9%D9%8F%D9%85%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%91%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86.svg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashidun Caliphs Umar ibn Al-Khattāb</a></em>
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Collection of Title Pages
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Large collection of title pages from various works. Collection is </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">under the stairs</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the left of the collection of money and to the right of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mother’s Picture Alphabet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Collection of Illuminated Letters
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collection of Illuminated Letters. Letters are located behind the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hunting trip in Idaho Mountains: In a Canyon of the Coeur D'Alene, Laocoön and His Sons</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressio Librorum.</span></i></p>
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Collection of Quotes on the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">A collection of quotes inscribed on the man from the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Quotes are to the right of the horse from the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and to the left of the mural dedication marker. Quotes Below:<br /><br />“Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,<br />But like a shadow, proves the substance true;<br />For envied wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known<br />Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own.”<br /><br />― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism<br /></span><br />Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.<br /><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />― Eustace Budgell, An Essay On Friendship<br /><br />Fame due to vaft defert is kept in store, <br />Unpaid till the deferver is no more <br /><br />― William Congreve<br /><br />Virtue's the friend of life, the soul of health, the poor man's comfort, and the rich man's wealth.<br /><br /><span>― Robert Daborne, A Poor Man's Comfort<em><br /><br /></em>Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; <br />He who would search for pearls, must dive below.<br /><br /></span><span>― </span><span>John Dryden, All for Love Prologue</span><br /><br /></span>
James Sicner
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<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tntLIJjrVkYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eustace Budgell: <em>Spectator 385</em></a>
<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69379/an-essay-on-criticism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexander Pope: <em>An Essay On Criticism</em></a>
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ewtEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA477&lpg=PA477&dq=%22unpaid,+till+the+deferver+is+no+more%22+poem&source=bl&ots=j5hyIkpaLr&sig=ACfU3U3aYSUFmNuQuE0KrWR1XShCUAJpOg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOptPToJzsAhVFIKwKHf8eAuYQ6AEwAHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22%20is%20kept%20in%20store%2C%20unpaid%2C%20till%20the%20deferver%20is%20no%20more%22%20poem&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Congreve on Fame</a>
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=R91IAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=virtue%27s+the+friend+of+life,+the+soul+of+health,+the+poor+man%27s+comfort,+and+the+rich+man%27s+wealth&source=bl&ots=SPe1mMItzI&sig=ACfU3U3a9FKhN9k0I4AQbb_s_ixtb5kU0Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZ8M3UopzsAhVHRK0KHfrEBeMQ6AEwA3oECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=virtue's%20the%20friend%20of%20life%2C%20the%20soul%20of%20health%2C%20the%20poor%20man's%20comfort%2C%20and%20the%20rich%20man's%20wealth&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Daborne, <em>A Poor Man's Comfort</em></a>
<a href="https://www.bartleby.com/18/1/1004.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Dryden: <em>All for Love</em> (Prologue)</a>
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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The Mother’s Picture Alphabet
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Images from </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mother’s Picture Alphabet</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that includes letters ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’, ‘E’, ‘I’, ‘P’ ‘Q’, ‘R’, ‘S’, and the title page illustration. The images are located both above and below the staircase with the bottom half to the right of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Triumphal Arch of Maximilian</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the top half below </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Laocoön and His Sons</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span>
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FudYAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Johnston: <em>The Mother's Picture Alphabet</em></a>
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Arabic Phrase
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Illustration of Arabic letters with a decorative border. Letters are located directly beneath Buddha at the bottom right of the mural.
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Illuminated Letter P
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An illustration of an illuminated letter "P" turned to the side. Image is above the sun but below the Mayan letter surrounded by a shield-shaped border.
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Individual Mayan Letters
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Image of individual Mayan letters. Original image is a part of the Schele Drawing Collection. The image is found above the Chinese Text and <em>The Reading Girl. </em>
James Sicner
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<a href="http://research.famsi.org/schele_list.php?_allSearch=glyphs&hold_search=glyphs&tab=schele&title=Schele+Drawing+Collection&x=0&y=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Schele Drawing Collection #189</a>
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Chinese Text
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Illustration of Chinese text. Image is behind <em>The Reading Girl</em> and below the <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Three Naked Men Climbing.</span></i>
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Pictographic Writing
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Stone with an iconographic language inscribed. Image is behind the knight slaying a dragon and between the Aztec Calendar and stone archway.
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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The Alphabet
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A recreation of the alphabet across the bottom of the mural. The alphabet serves as a bottom border. The alphabet begins on the left with <em>Melencolia I</em> and ends below <em>The White Rabbit.</em>
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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Cuneiform Tablet
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Depiction of a tablet written in cuneiform, an ancient script originated in Mesopotamia. Tablet sits in front of the Egyptian obelisk and to the right of the Resurrection of Jesus.
James Sicner
Man’s Evolving Images, Printing and Writing Mural
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuneiform_evolution_from_archaic_script.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chart of Cuneiform Scripts</a>
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Latin Verse
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A recreation of the verse inscribed above Dürer's <em>The Madonna on the Crescent</em>. Text is to the direct left of the <em>Sun of Adonai</em>.
James Sicner
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<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/388130" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Albrecht Dürer: <em>The Madonna on the Crescent</em></a>
Coates Library, Trinity University
1983
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