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2003,0718.1. The Burney Relief (also known as the Queen of the Night relief) is a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in high relief of the Isin-Larsa period or Old- Babylonian period, depicting a winged, nude, goddess-like figure with bird's talons, flanked by owls, and perched upon two lions. Side view showing depth of the relief.
Abraham Lincoln: The Man in Lincoln Park, Chicago (1887). In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and ...
Away from the loggia wall, the Medici Pasquino Group, copying an ancient Roman subject. Italian Renaissance sculpture was an important part of the art of the Italian Renaissance, in the early stages arguably representing the leading edge. [1] The example of Ancient Roman sculpture hung very heavily over it, both in terms of style and the uses ...
Stela H, a high-relief in-the-round sculpture from Copán in Honduras Maya stelae (singular stela ) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica . They consist of tall, sculpted stone shafts and are often associated with low circular stones referred to as altars, although their actual function is uncertain ...
At his best Desiderio da Settignano was a sculptor of soft persuasion and subtle nuances. According to Vasari, his last work was the painted wooden statue of St. Mary Magdalene, now in Santa Trinita, left unfinished and completed by Benedetto da Maiano after Desiderio's death. Desiderio da Settignano died in Florence in 1464.
Parthenon Frieze. The Parthenon frieze is the high-relief Pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon 's naos. It was sculpted between c. 443 and 437 BC, [1] most likely under the direction of Phidias. Of the 160 meters (524 ft) of the original frieze, 128 meters (420 ft) survives—some 80 percent. [2]
The George H. W. Bush Monument, also known as the President Bush Monument, [1] is an 8-foot (2.4 m) bronze statue of George H. W. Bush in Houston 's Sesquicentennial Park, in the U.S. state of Texas. [2] The monument was designed by Chas Fagan. The wider project included a plaza and a wall with four reliefs depicting events of Bush's career ...
A 1922 High-Relief Proof Coin to be exact. A coin expert told Rick and the seller that it's, "one of the rarest coins in American A rare silver dollar is worth big bucks on 'Pawn Stars'