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The John Donne Memorial is a bronze bust of John Donne by Nigel Boonham, installed in the garden to the south of St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom. Donne faces east towards his birthplace on Bread Street. Below the bust is an inscription with the text
The name of Leigh's sculpture refers to a strong Black woman who stands with strength, endurance, and integrity, like a house constructed of bricks. [2] Therefore, the sculpture serves as the embodiment of feminine power amid a patriarchal society demanding viewers to apply a sense of respect and dignity to the female body and the Black female ...
Demagnez was born in Paris, France, in 1869. [1] During a time in history when very few women ventured into the male-dominated world of bronze sculpture, Demagnez’s work was deemed to be of such good quality that she broke the barrier and was allowed to exhibit her work in what was at the time arguably the world’s most important art show—the annual Salon exhibition. [2]
The sculpture features a life-size bust of Johnson made of bronze with holes to insert flowers. [2] It is a work of guerrilla art but was later approved by New York Park Services, making it the first sculpture of a transgender person in New York City.
The National Congress of Black Women commissioned Lane to create a bronze bust portraying women's-right advocate and abolitionist Sojourner Truth. [4] The bust was unveiled on April 28, 2009 by First Lady Michelle Obama for permanent display in the Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Centre , [ 11 ] making Truth the first black woman to be ...
A plaque and a palm tree weren't enough to mark the swagger and star power of Burt Reynolds. That's why a bronze bust were unveiled on Monday, three years after the actor's death. (Sept. 22)
A plaque and a palm tree weren't enough to mark the swagger and star power of Burt Reynolds. “Anybody else want to touch him?” Loni Anderson, Reynolds' wife from 1988 to 1994, asked the small ...
Marilyn B. Skinner argues that Corinna's poetry is part of the tradition of "women's poetry" in ancient Greece, though it differs significantly from Sappho's conception of that genre. [60] She considers that although it was written by a woman, Corinna's poetry tells stories from a patriarchal point of view, [ 60 ] describing women's lives from ...