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| Headline | Picture: Did you know that the icon on the front of the Graceland album is actually part of a strip |
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David Benbow
Nov-18-2013, 21:50 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Did you know that the icon on the front of the Graceland album is actually part of a strip of paintings?
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mog
Nov-19-2013, 02:11 GMT
Canada
 | Yes, I knew. |
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Richard
Nov-19-2013, 19:56 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| This photo is really blurry on my computer.
I didn't know this about the image. I always thought that it probably had an interesting history to it. |
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davidb
Nov-19-2013, 22:15 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| It's blurry on my screen too. There's an image of the entire strip on this website: http://www.pem.org/collections/5-african_art |
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Bodo
Nov-20-2013, 15:02 GMT
Austria
  | I have seen very very similar paintings in a greek monastery. I even bought on of the postcards because it looked exactly like the Graceland cover picture (but it wasn't the same, anyway, same style, same knight on a horse...).
So - at least for me - these kind of paintings do not have a real connection to African (south African) art. I wonder what these paintings meant to Paul...european crusades in northern Africa. |
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Richard
Nov-20-2013, 15:53 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Thanks for the link to the clear image. If anyone knows why this was selected, I think that would be quite interesting. PS has had some odd album covers and this one is among them, to me anyway. |
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simonon
Nov-23-2013, 12:31 GMT
Spain
 | The image that appears on the cover of Graceland is a fragment of a religious icon of Ethiopian origin. Located in the Peadboy Musseum Essex, Massachusetts. You see it in the African room of the museum. The cover image depicts St George on his white horse.
In the work we see the Virgin and baby Jesus accompanied by the Archangels, St. George (cover of Graceland) and San Mercurio on horseback and the Apostles. |
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Richard
Nov-23-2013, 13:33 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Interesting! Thanks. |
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