Record "I never mutiny so much against France, that I am not perfectly friends with Paris...I love her tenderly, even to her wars and blemishes...But because it is, in truth my own humour, and peradventure not without some excess, I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Polander as a Frenchmen, preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties whatever."--Michel de Montaigne. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man. | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution

"I never mutiny so much against France, that I am not perfectly friends with Paris...I love her tenderly, even to her wars and blemishes...But because it is, in truth my own humour, and peradventure not without some excess, I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Polander as a Frenchmen, preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties whatever."--Michel de Montaigne. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

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Artist:: Elaine Urbain, born Wauwatosa, WI 1925-died Milford, CT 2004 Search this

Medium:: glass mounted in plaster mounted in light box

Dimensions:: 13 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (33.3 x 25.7 cm.)

Type:: Decorative Arts-Glass

Date:: 1950

Topic:: Figure\fragment\hand Search this; Allegory\element\fire Search this

Credit Line:: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America

Object number:: 1984.124.294

Restrictions & Rights:: Usage conditions apply

See more items in:: Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department:: Decorative Arts

Data Source:: Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk71034144e-a8b4-4fad-af34-ab551cada366

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:saam_1984.124.294