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Snails in Art and the Art of Snails

Professor Steve Jones · Gresham College

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About

Snails play a surprising part in art. Dali used them as images of impotence, while medieval painters included them in paintings of the Virgin Mary, due to the belief that their shells meant that their modesty was protected and they reproduced without sex. Gravestones are sometimes etched with snail images for they are seen as creatures that undergo resurrection when, after a long period of drought, it rains and thousands of snails that had been dried up start crawling around.

The talk

  1. Snails in Art and the Art of Snails 2014-02-19 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Steve Jones
Year
2014
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
History, Art, architecture and design
Source
Gresham College
Licence
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