Sons and Daughters of Deucalion and Pyrrha in Urbana, Illinois
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Oct 01 2020 at 4:00 PM GMT
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- Originally designed to be the companion sculpture to The Fountain of Time in Chicago, Lorado Taft's Fountain of Creation sculpture was never completed.
- Instead of the planned 38 figures, only four were finished.
- They were then given as a gift to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by Mrs.
- The statues depict the Greek myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
- As the story goes, Zeus wanted to end the Bronze Age with a flood.
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- Published Oct 1, 2020 4:00 PM GMT