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Photograph of The Seers of Knowledge. The figures on the Los Angeles Public Library Tower rise over the city as an extraordinary lesson in sculptural storytelling.

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The Seers of Knowledge

The figures on the Los Angeles Public Library Tower rise over the city as an extraordinary lesson in sculptural storytelling.

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The Seers of Knowledge

Los Angeles Public Library Tower

The tower of the Los Angeles Public Library carries Lawrie’s “seers of knowledge”: writers, poets, philosophers and sacred figures whose work shaped the written record.

Los Angeles Public Library Tower

The Seers of Knowledge

Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy
Homer, the blind poet and author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
King David and Saint John maquettes
Another view of Homer
Another view of Dante
Plato, author of The Republic, holding a dodecahedron
Goethe, author of Faust
William Shakespeare, misspelled in stone
The tower from next door
Description of the tower figures: “The seers of knowledge”
Library publication describing the eight Seers of Light who crown the tower
Contemporary newspaper report on the Library’s “Apostles of Light”
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