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  2. Maman (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois.The sculpture, which depicts a spider, is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (9.27 x 8.91 x 10.24 metres). [1]

  3. Cultural depictions of spiders - Wikipedia

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    Spiders are depicted in Indigenous Australian art, in rock and bark paintings, and for clan totems. Spiders in their webs are associated with a sacred rock in central Arnhem Land on the Burnungku clan estate of the Rembarrnga/Kyne people. Their totem design is connected with a major regional ceremony, providing a connection with neighboring ...

  4. The Woman with the Spider's Web - Wikipedia

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    The Woman with the Spider's Web (or The Woman with the Spider's Web between Bare Trunks, German: Die Frau mit dem Spinnennetz zwischen kahlen Bäumen) is a small c. 1803 print by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, made into a woodcut the same year by his brother Christian Friedrich, a carpenter and furniture maker.

  5. List of artworks by Louise Bourgeois - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of individual works of visual art (sculpture, drawings, and paintings) by Louise Bourgeois, ... Spider Woman (2005). Drypoint: plate, 6 7/8 × 9 1/2 ...

  6. Great Goddess of Teotihuacan - Wikipedia

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    Defining characteristics of the Great Goddess are a bird headress and a nose pendant with descending fangs. [10] In the Tepantitla and Tetitla murals, for example, the Great Goddess wears a frame headdress that includes the face of a green bird, generally identified as an owl or quetzal, [11] and a rectangular nosepiece adorned with three circles below which hang three or five fangs.

  7. One of those projects is “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical that will debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Lopez play Aurora, a classic screen siren ...

  8. Cobweb painting - Wikipedia

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    Cobweb painting, sometimes known as gossamer painting, is the delicate process of painting on canvases made from caterpillar and spider webs that have been collected, layered, cleaned, and framed. Fewer than 100 cobweb paintings are known to exist, many of which are housed in private collections.

  9. Spider (Bourgeois) - Wikipedia

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    Spider stands 175 x 262 x 204 inches, [2] nearly 15 feet in height. Underneath the belly of the spider's main body there is a basket with three glass eggs inside. The spider hovers over a large steel cage, with its body resting on the top and its giant legs surrounding it. Inside the cage there is a singular chair with a tapestry on it.