# Does this visual style have a name? (horizontally linked faces) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-visual-style-have-a-name-horizontally-linked-faces/750483 "2016-03-28T20:41:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-visual-style-have-a-name-horizontally-linked-faces/750483/1 "2016-03-28T20:41:43Z")
I saw this charming cane topper on Antiques Roadshow yesterday: > **[canetopper2.PNG](https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B021FB3140391EBE%2185938&authkey=%21ADqHytwiFJECv0o&v=3&ithint=photo%2cPNG)** > > PNG Image I think they said it was a Nordic design, but does this form (where each eye is part of two adjacent faces) have a name? I want to find some more examples of it, but with one exception (an album cover of Queen’s _The Miracle_) I am drawing a blank. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-visual-style-have-a-name-horizontally-linked-faces/750483/2 "2016-03-28T23:08:29Z")
One of the Ancient races on _Babylon 5_ manifested in such a way. And for real-life examples, there are [Janus cats](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-UYh-N7yYNU/hqdefault.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-visual-style-have-a-name-horizontally-linked-faces/750483/3 "2016-03-29T00:17:04Z")
This is similar to the [“perpetual face”](https://www.onekingslane.com/p/3421439-dora-maar-perpetual-faces-pair) style associated with 20th-century surrealists (?) like Piero Fornasetti and Dora Maar. I don’t know anything about pre-modern influences or forerunners relating to it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-visual-style-have-a-name-horizontally-linked-faces/750483/4 "2016-03-29T00:48:45Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > This is similar to the [“perpetual face”](https://www.onekingslane.com/p/3421439-dora-maar-perpetual-faces-pair) style associated with 20th-century surrealists (?) like Piero Fornasetti and Dora Maar. > > I don’t know anything about pre-modern influences or forerunners relating to it, though. And [not just faces](http://www.passagems.com/accessories/p10024-perpetual2.jpg) (not really sure if this needs one, but NSFW). Although not joined at the eyes, the Hindu god [Brahma](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Brahma_on_hamsa.jpg/407px-Brahma_on_hamsa.jpg) is usually depicted with four faces and the [deities of the Hindu pantheon](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/28/article-2254352-16AD545F000005DC-222_634x421.jpg) are sometimes depicted as a row of interlocking heads. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-visual-style-have-a-name-horizontally-linked-faces/750483/5 "2016-03-30T22:24:52Z")
Yeah, Brahma/ Krishna Trimurti, and Roman god Janus type of thing. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-visual-style-have-a-name-horizontally-linked-faces/750483/6 "2016-03-30T23:04:39Z")
> [@capybara](#): > > Yeah, Brahma/ Krishna Trimurti, and Roman god Janus type of thing. Hey - haven’t seen you and your art history-splanation type posts lately! ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-visual-style-have-a-name-horizontally-linked-faces/750483/7 "2016-03-31T13:39:06Z")
Only two faces, I’m afraid, but here’s [Sly and Robbie](https://www.amazon.ca/Language-Barrier-Sly-Robbie/dp/B00009ATJJ/177-3067781-0894234?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0) with something similar.