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Patrick S. Dinneen also gives Síle na gCíoċ, stating it is "a stone fetish representing a woman, supposed to give fertility, generally thought to have been introduced by the Normans." [ 8 ] Other researchers have questioned these interpretations [ 2 ] – few sheela na gigs are shown with breasts – and expressed doubt about the linguistic ...
The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; RR: Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") [1] and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), [2] is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by ...
Alison Lapper MBE (born 7 April 1965 [1]) is a British artist.She is the subject of the sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was displayed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square from September 2005 until late 2007.
The 1,100 pound bronze statue [5] monument is a replica of the original comfort women statue located in Seoul, South Korea. It depicts a girl sitting in a chair, with an empty chair beside her. [ 1 ] The chair represents aging survivors who have not yet received justice, as well as space for people to sit and reflect on how women and girls were ...
Statue of Lady Justice blindfolded and holding a balance and a sword, outside the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong. Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. [1] [2] Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes a blindfold. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia.
Yakshi is a sculpture in Malampuzha park, Palakkad adjacent to the Malampuzha Dam in the Indian state of Kerala. [1] Sculptored by Kanayi Kunhiraman, its construction was completed in 1969. [2]
Zhuhai Fisher Girl (Chinese: 珠海渔女; pinyin: Zhūhǎi Yú Nǚ) is a statue and landmark in the Xianglu Bay [] area of Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.Commissioned ahead of the establishment of the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone, the statue was designed by Pan He based on a local legend about a celestial being who descended to the region to live as a simple fisherwoman.
Tlalli (Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ; Nahuatl languages: land) [a] was a proposed sculpture of a large indigenous woman's head by contemporary artist Pedro Reyes.It was proposed to replace the Monument to Christopher Columbus along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma.