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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
… Now don’t you feel more knowledgeable on fine art?
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If Fred's intention was that the two columns allude to the Pillars of Hercules, then becoming more knowledgeable was implied à la Sir Francis Bacon:
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… The Pillars appear prominently on the engraved title page of Sir Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna ("Great Renewal"), 1620, an unfinished work of which the second part was his influential Novum Organum. The motto along the base says Multi pertransibunt et augebitur scientia ("Many will pass through and knowledge will be the greater"). …
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[Bold mine]
