*The Madonna of Port Lligat' is an immense painting that Dali regarded as his greatest work to date. The work was painted on such a colossal scale that it took the artist five months to complete. Dali explains, 'modern physics has revealed to us increasingly the dematerialization which exists in all nature and that is the reason why the material body of my Madonna does not exist and why in place of a torso you find a tabernacle 'filled with Heaven.' But while everything floating in space denotes spirituality it also represents our concept of the atomic system - today's counterpart of divine gravitation." Gala (Dali's wife) was depicted as the Virgin Mary, while Juan Figueres, a six-year-old boy from Cadaques, was used as the model for the infant Jesus. Both figures are suspended in midair, like particles of atomic matter, while directly above their heads a symbolic ostrich egg hangs by a thread. This is based on the myth that the female ostrich hatched its eggs by exposing them to sunlight without being impregnated by the male bird. *Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - A Spanish artist renowned for 'surrealism', cubism, futurism, technical skill, precise draftsmanship, striking & bizarre images in his work. Major themes in his work include dream sequences, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships. He used this method to realize the dreams and imagination he had in his mind, changing the real world the way he wanted and not necessarily what it was. Dal�'s artistic repertoire included painting, graphic arts, film, sculpture, design, photography, fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays and criticism.