The Nile
by Joseph Yarbrough
Title
The Nile
Artist
Joseph Yarbrough
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
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The Nile in Africa: Bernini depicts the Nile with its head covered because at that time, the source of the river was unknown. Symbolically, this also refers to what the Catholic world saw as the dark ignorance of the "pagan" world: the sculpture has not seen the light of Christianity (Artble, 2019
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March 21st, 2019
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