Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The westwork of Hildesheim Cathedral in 2005. Each leaf of the doors was cast as a single piece. Given the size (left: 472.0 x 125.0 cm, right: 472.0 x 114.5 cm, maximum thickness c. 3.5-4.5 cm) and enormous weight (both c. 1.85 tonnes) of the doors, this is a great achievement for its time.
One of the most famous examples of Bernward's work is a monumental set of cast bronze doors known as the Bernward doors, now installed at St. Mary's Cathedral, which are sculpted with scenes of the Fall of Man (Adam and Eve) and the Salvation of Man (Life of Christ), and which are related in some ways to the wooden doors of Santa Sabina in Rome.
Pages in category "Bronze doors" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bernward Doors; C.
In 1870 the Hildesheim sculptor Karl Küsthardt gave the column a new bronze capital, which was meant to imitate the wooden capital or an illustration of it and to indirectly preserve the appearance of the old bronze capital, which had supported an impost topped by a bronze crucifix. In 1893 it was moved into the cathedral.
1997: Duke Ellington Monument – Central Park, New York City; 1999: Charlie "Bird" Parker Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri; 2001: Prologue – addition to the FDR Memorial, Washington, DC [8] 2002: The Great Bronze Doors and Statue of Mary – Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, California
Robert Temple Summers II (born August 13, 1940) is an American artist in Cleburne, Texas.Summers, who works as a painter and sculptor, has created prominent bronze works displayed in places such as the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, the Dallas Pioneer Park [1] the Loews Anatole Hotel, Fair Park, Los Angeles International Airport, and Plano Texas' Baccus Plaza.
Bronze doors (1926), Scottish Rite Cathedral (Masonic), San Antonio, Texas. Statue of George Washington (1926–27), Friendship Masonic Lodge 160, Portland, Oregon. Texas State Fair Hall of State (1935–36), Fair Park , Dallas, Texas:
Pioneer Plaza is a large public park located in the Convention Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas . It contains a large sculpture and is a heavily visited tourist site. Adjacent to the plaza is the Pioneer Park Cemetery which features the Confederate War Memorial. Together, it is the largest public open space in the Dallas central ...