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Who gives much thought to our hard-working feet unless they're sore, overheated, or stepping in something unpleasant? Who really probes the spirituality of our soles?
In childhood, we may walk the equivalent distance of a trip to the moon and back, some 560,000 miles. Our feet bear the brunt of this journey. Clearly, these appendages should be subject of scientific analysis and fanciful artistic celebration. And they are.
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Lateral View of Foot Bones From the Nuclear Medicine Mediabook Web site, © 1998 Crump Institute for Biological Imaging. (Click on image to see more examples.) |
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Foot of Emperor Constantine 315-330 C.E. © 1999 by Mary Ann Sullivan. (Click on image to see more examples.) |
From a colossal seated statue of Constantine, about 30 feet high. The body was made of less valuable materials, while the exposed parts (head, hands, feet) were made of marble. Like the colossal statues of gods placed in Greek temples, this statue of the emperor was originally placed in the west apse (apse of the short end) of the Basilica Nova of Maxentius and Constantine in the Roman Forum.
From Images of the Colossal Statue of Constantine, Rome Web site, by Mary Ann Sullivan. © 1999.