This move of political genius linked the God of Israel, the chosen dynasty of David, and the chosen city of Jerusalem in a henceforth indissoluble union.
That's one theory offered by Bruno Frisoni, creative director of luxury French accessories brand Roger Vivier, whose namesake founder was one of two creative footwear geniuses linked to its inception.
According to the exhibition blurb, "the watercolors possess a starling immediacy and a freshness that underline his genius in linking natural history and art, as well as a respect for the environment".
The myth of Eakins as the misunderstood genius is linked to the infamous story of his dismissal as an art school teacher in prudish Philadelphia after he removed the loincloth from a male model in a class that included male and female students.
His genius was to link ideas through imagination and technology, and drive them forward by networking, often with senior Labour politicians with whom he had strong contacts.
Then Marc had this genius idea to link each chapter with art pieces because Christian Dior owned art galleries in the early years.
A feat of engineering genius, the canal links a series of lochs from the west coast to the east, slicing through the Highlands from Fort William to Inverness.
Down 14, the old links genius bumps an iron approach off the left-hand camber of the fairway and guides his ball into the heart of the green, 15 feet from the pin.
Henry the genius shortstop has links with Roy Hobbs in Bernard Malamud's The Natural (Hobbs calls his bat Wonderboy, just as Henry calls his mitt Zero), but The Art of Fielding has deeper affinities with William Maxwell's wonderful novel The Folded Leaf, published in 1945, at about the last possible moment before Kinsey's report made lack of definition seem like evasion.
It doesn't take a genius to see the link between the wanderings, too, of the millions of refugees crossing Europe now".
