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One graphic artist... was so carried away by [Khomeini's] ideal image that in his enthusiasm he based a poster of the Ayatollah on the paintings by the seventeenth-century Spanish artist Murillo of the Blessed Virgin Mary surrounded by cherubim and crushing a serpent underfoot. .

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Stirring a nation
Symbols of the 1979 revolution
September 3, 2001
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From Staging a Revolution : The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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