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The sculpture is in the Art Deco style of Rockefeller Center. The figure of Atlas in the sculpture is 15 feet (4.6 m) tall, while the entire statue is 45 feet (14 m) tall. [14] [15] It weighs 14,000 pounds (6,400 kg), [16] and is the largest sculpture at Rockefeller Center. [17] Atlas is depicted carrying the celestial vault on his shoulders.
Rockefeller Center's managers cleaned the facade of the International Building and its wings during 1979 as part of a restoration program across the entire complex. [205] Manship's 6 ft-tall (1.8 m) statues, which had stood atop the Palazzo d'Italia since it opened, were removed in 1984 and relocated to Rockefeller Center's central plaza. [39]
In Greek mythology, Atlas (/ ˈ æ t l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἄτλας, Átlās) is a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomachy. Atlas also plays a role in the myths of two of the greatest Greek heroes : Heracles ( Hercules in Roman mythology ) and Perseus .
47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center station Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.
The chain first opened in Rockefeller Center, New York City in 1995. [3] On Monday May 6, 1996, construction began on the London branch of the chain, though the London branch went bust in 1999, a year after it opened. [1] The London and New York locations became the primary locations of Fashion Cafe.
Rockefeller Center eventually became the family's "single largest repository" of wealth. [134] In 1950, Rockefeller Center Inc. paid the last installment of the $65 million mortgage owed to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Three years later, the complex was making $5 million per year in profit, excluding the tax breaks. [135]
Lee Oscar Lawrie (October 16, 1877 – January 23, 1963 [1]) was an American architectural sculptor and an important figure in the American sculpture scene preceding World War II. Over his long career of more than 300 commissions Lawrie's style evolved through Modern Gothic , to Beaux-Arts , Classicism , and, finally, into Moderne or Art Deco .
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