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Essay Archive - Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí I Domènech was the son of Salvador Dalí
Cusí and Felipa Domènech Ferrés. He was born on the lackadaisical day of
May 11, 1904. Dalí later claimed to have been named after an older brother
that had died at the age of twenty-two months, but in actuality he was
dubbed after his father and grandfather. Felipe is the male equivalent of
his mother's name while Jacinto came from his uncle.
The family lived in a small, rural town called Figueres in Spain.
It was sixteen miles south of the Spanish-French border....
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