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2. The Veiled Virgin - Wikipedia

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   The Veiled Virgin is a Carrara marble statue carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875) [2] depicting the bust of a veiled Virgin Mary. [3] The exact date of the statue's completion is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1850s. [4] The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but is carved of marble

3. Vestal Virgin Tuccia (Corradini sculpture) - Wikipedia

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   A similar contrapposto stance, twisted upper torso, and a long contour-hugging veil characterize the sculpture. [15] In the mid-19th century, there was a resurgence in popularity of the veiled woman motif after the example of Corradini partially due to the image of a veiled woman becoming an allegory for Italian unification. [16]

4. The Veiled Nun - Wikipedia

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   The Veiled Nun is a marble bust depicting a female figure, sculpted by an unidentified Italian workshop c. 1863. Despite its name, the woman depicted is not a nun.. The bust was popular with visitors to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., from 1874 until the museum closed in 2014.

5. Veiled Vestal - Wikipedia

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   [1] [3] Cavendish requested a depiction, in marble, of a veiled woman. Such sculptures, imitating translucent fabrics, were popular at the time and Cavendish's close friend, the sculptor Antonio Canova, was a particular admirer of Giuseppe Sanmartino's 1753 Veiled Christ. [3]

6. Veiled Rebecca - Wikipedia

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   The statue was described in a 19th-century English art journal: "Benzoni, the fashionable Roman sculptor, whose studio has been visited by a number of crowned heads, exhibits in his suite of showrooms, several replicas in different sizes of his Diana, his veiled Rebecca before her meeting with Isaac, the 'Four Seasons', etc." [8]

7. Statue unveiled at the site where Sojourner Truth gave her ...

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   A bronze statue depicting her and women's rights pioneers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was unveiled in New York's Central Park in 2020, becoming the park’s first monument honoring ...