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Salvador Dali: Crucifixion
 

Dali used the net of a 4-dimensional cube, called a Tesseract, to depict the crucifixion. The net is how you would unfold a 4-dimensional cube into three dimensions.

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S. Dali, Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubicus) (1954)
© 2002 Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

 
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Salvador Dali: Crucifixion
 
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