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The Spire of Dublin, alternatively titled the Millennium Spire or the Monument of Light [3] (Irish: An Túr Solais), [4] is a large, stainless steel, pin-like monument 120 metres (390 ft) in height, [5] located on the site of the former Nelson's Pillar (and prior to that a statue of William Blakeney) on O'Connell Street, the main thoroughfare of Dublin, Ireland.
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A statue of St. Louis by the sculptor John Donoghue stands on the roofline of the New York State Appellate Division Court at 27 Madison Avenue in New York City. The Apotheosis of St. Louis is an equestrian statue of the saint, by Charles Henry Niehaus , that stands in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park.
Wearing a wide brimmed hat, a book in the left hand and a model church in the right hand. St. Jerome: 121: St Gregory: 1867–69: James Redfern: Wearing a papal tiara, a dove on the right shoulder and a sceptre in the left hand. St. Gregory: 122: St Augustine of Hippo: 1867–69: James Redfern: Wearing a mitre, a crozier supported on left wrist.
The illuminations of the Coronation Ordo of Charles V of 1365 show a similar sceptre in the hands of the king. [4] The Sceptre was used in all the coronations of the French kings from 1380 to 1775 with the exception of Charles VII and Henry IV, possibly due to the Hundred Years’ War and the coronation not being held in Reims respectively.
Scott's Monument as it appeared when nearly finished in October 1844 Masons working on the Monument, photographed by Hill & Adamson in the early 1840s The Sir Walter Scott statue designed by John Steell, located inside the Scott Monument. Following Scott's death in 1832, a competition was held to design a monument to him.
Map of Sicily from a 13th-century copy of the Fatimid cosmography, The Book of Curiosities, housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University The Book of Curiosities (Arabic: Kitāb Gharā’ib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn, literally translated as Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes) is an anonymous 11th-century Arabic cosmography from Fatimid Egypt containing a ...
Sceptre is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, [1] a British publishing house which is a division of Hachette UK. Founded in 1986 as the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton , Sceptre’s remit is to publish original fiction and non-fiction that aims not just to entertain and absorb but also to stretch the mind: to be thought-provoking ...