Word: phallus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awesome priest, with double-handled dagger worn at chest height appears often, as do long-haired priestesses. Warriors abound, some garbed in helmets, breastplates and greaves, and capable of such feats as shooting a bow while standing on a bare-backed horse. A dancing piper with an exaggerated phallus indicates the celebration of orgiastic rites; farmers arrive with lambs for sacrifice and bearing bowls of barley meal for offerings. Most moving of all is a pre-Christian madonna and child, probably yet another appearance of the fertility and mother goddess who held sway throughout the Mediterranean...
...that jealous city officials stopped at mid-construction in the 18th century for fear that it would dwarf the city hall across the way. Up from the gondola landing stands Sculptor Marino Marini's strident Angel of the City (1948), a youth on horseback equipped with a detachable phallus that is respectfully removed whenever the Patriarch of Venice floats by to bless the city. Inside the palazzo, behind a 12-ft., barbed-wire-topped wall, lies more than $2,000,000 worth of modern art works, the lifetime collection of U.S. Expatriate Peggy Guggenheim...
...acquire its spirit; with that insight, as myths tell it, the original oneness of spirit and body, heaven and hell, was torn asunder. The ancient Egyptians spent half their lives preparing for the afterlife (some lucky corpses were sent to eternity in a glass shaft carved to represent the phallus of Osiris); at times it seemed as if only the grave robbers, who returned a large percentage of buried wealth to circulation, saved the nation from bankruptcy. The Macedonians did things more simply (Alexander the Great was transported to his burial in honey...