Sphere Within Sphere

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Sphere within Sphere Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con sfera) is a bronze sculpture by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.

Versions of the sculpture (diameters vary) can be seen in many settings worldwide, including:

Vatican Museums, Rome Palazzo della Farnesina, Rome Trinity College, Dublin United Nations Headquarters, New York

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio de Young Museum, San Francisco

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone University of California, Berkeley Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv

Gallery

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  Sphere Within Sphere by Pomodoro in the Cortile della Pigna, Vatican, Rome.

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  Sphere Within Sphere by Pomodoro in Trinity College Dublin

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  Sphere Within Sphere by Neeku in Trinity College, Dublin, 2015

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  Sphere Within Sphere by Arnaldo Pomodoro in United Nations

Also note, this 'may' be a depiction of a concavity concept, that demonstrates a concave earth perspective, which also contains a celestial sphere within the center. Alternatively, it may also represent the world breaking out of the Ptolemaic view of the heavens, a nodding reference to both Copernicus and Galileo.

See also

• List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2

External links

• flickr.com