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Shades of Enlightenment

September 2017

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Shades of Enlightenment

Photo: Stu Berman, MBA ’94

The setting sun put a spotlight on The Three Shades in the Rodin Sculpture Garden, a popular destination for campus visitors. The bronze cast depicts souls of the damned that Dante encounters in The Divine Comedy.

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