South Wall Left Panel Ye Shall Be As Gods, (painting).

South Wall Left Panel Ye Shall Be As Gods, (painting).

Aderente, Vincent, 1880-1941, painter.

Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, painter.

South Wall Left Panel Ye Shall Be As Gods, (painting).

Digital Reference:

"The symbolic figure of the Scientist stands between two great jars containing beneficent and malevolent gases or constructive and destructive possibilities. The group below represents diplomats and officers at the Council Table of the world. In the upper section a figure of Hygeia is depicted placing a crown on the head of the scientist. Animal figures symbolic of the Dogs of War lurk beside the jar of Evil Gases, while in the background may be seen the figure of Famine. At the foot of the panel two children support an inscription from Genesis: "Ye Shall Be as Gods Knowing Good and Evil."

Figure male -- Full length

Occupation -- Science -- Scientist

Mythology -- Classical -- Hygeia

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Morss Dining and Activity Area, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

King, Glenn, 2008.

Weiner, Mina Rieur, ed., "Edwin Howland Blashfield: Master American Muralist," New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 2009, pg. 103.

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