As the art historian Emily Braun has documented, Klimpt read Darwin and became fascinated with the structure of the cell... Thus, the small iconographic images on Adelle's dress are not simply decorative... they are symbols of male and female cells: rectangular sperm and ovoid eggs.... designed to match the sitter's seductive face and her full-blown reproductive capacities.


The Age of Insight (2012)

Eric Kandel Quotes

As the art historian Emily Braun has documented, Klimpt read Darwin and became fascinated with the structure of the cell... Thus, the small...

As the art historian Emily Braun has documented, Klimpt read Darwin and became fascinated with the structure of the cell... Thus, the small...

As the art historian Emily Braun has documented, Klimpt read Darwin and became fascinated with the structure of the cell... Thus, the small...

As the art historian Emily Braun has documented, Klimpt read Darwin and became fascinated with the structure of the cell... Thus, the small...