Eternal Silence (sculpture)
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Eternal Silence, alternatively known as the Dexter Graves Monument or the Statue of Death, is a monument in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery and features a bronze sculpture of a hooded and draped figure s
According to folklore looking into the eyes of the statue will give the viewer a vision of their own death.
Hooded bronze figure
Lorado Taft
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Lorado Zadok Taft was an American sculptor, writer and educator. Part of the American Renaissance movement, his monumental pieces include, Fountain of Time, Spirit of the Great Lakes, and The Eternal
Taft in 1934
Taft at work on Fountain of the Great Lakes in Lorado Taft Midway Studios in 1913
The Recording Angel, 1923
Part of the Fountain of Creation (1933, unfinished), at the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign