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    		• Laurent, Robert,
     
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    		• Aiello, Joseph,
     
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    		• Bruner, James A.,
     
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    		• Figure group -- Nude
     
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    		• Allegory -- Quality
     
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    		• Allegory -- Time
     
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    		• Object -- Other
     
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    		• Object -- Other
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Indiana -- Bloomington
     
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    		• Architectural component
     
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    		• Relief
     
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    Veritas, Filia Temporis, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Laurent, Robert, 1890-1970, sculptor.
    Aiello, Joseph, assistant.
    Bruner, James A., assistant.
    Title: 
    Veritas, Filia Temporis, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Truth, Daughter of Time, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1959.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Limestone.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 8 ft. x 25 ft. x 12 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Bottom right:) LAURENT (Across top, incised lettering:) VERITAS FILIA TEMPORIS signed
    Description: 
    A wall relief of Father Time and his daughter Truth reclining on clouds above a stylized setting sun and water motif, reaching toward one another. Truth is on the left, seen nude, wearing a headdress with flowing hair, her proper left hand reaching to the center towards her father's outstretched proper right hand. She holds a lamp in her proper right hand. Father Time has a beard and is covered with slight drapery, holding an hourglass in his proper left hand.
    Subject: 
    Figure group -- Nude
    Allegory -- Quality -- Truth
    Allegory -- Time
    Object -- Other -- Lantern
    Object -- Other -- Hourglass
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Indiana -- Bloomington
    Architectural component
    Relief
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Indiana University, Architect's Office, 700 North Walnut Grove, Service Building, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
    Located Indiana University, Ballantine Hall, front facade, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
    Remarks: 
    The title of the sculpture is Latin for "Truth, Daughter of Time." The sculpture was designed by the artist while he was working at the American Academy in Rome. IAS files contain newspaper clippings from The Indiana Daily Student (Indiana University), May 12, 1959, and June 16, 1959; and excerpt from the exhibition catalog "Laurent: Fifty Years of Sculpture," Bloomington, IN: Indiana University School of Fine Arts, 1961.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Indiana survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Indiana Daily Student (Indiana University), June 16, 1959.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS IN000710
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