The angel is a bog-standard off-the-shelf funerary angel whose face is based on classical faces. The sphinx is a nightmare. Whether it's Schoenhofen or not isn't important, it's the anachronistic incongruity of a realistic 20th-century face on an antique form that will put me back in therapy for another 10 years or more.
B > On 15 Dec 2014, at 21:18, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > A cursory Google search will turn up a portrait of Peter Schoenhofen. Neither > the spinx, nor the angel looks anything like him. > > On 12/15/2014 4:01 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: >>> On 15 Dec 2014, at 20:58, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> >>> Nice photo. The Schoenhofen pyramid mausoleum was designed by a fairly well >>> known architect, Richard E. Schmidt, but I suspect the family insisted on >>> the angel. >> >> It's not the angel, it's the sphinx's face! >> >> >>>> >>>> The Schoenhofen memorial in Graceland Cemetary (Chicago, IL) is a shining >>>> example of that saying: >>>> >>>> http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2014/chicago/content/K5__6904_large.html >>>> >>>> -Charles >>>> >>>> >> > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
