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Treebeard, called by Gandalf the oldest living Ent and the oldest living thing that walks in Middle-earth, [T 1] is described as being around 14 feet (4 m) tall, "Man-like, almost Troll-like", and clad in something that might have been tree-bark, with seven toes, a bushy, "almost twiggy" beard and deep penetrating eyes.
The Archibald Fountain is also known as one of the most homoerotic examples of public art in Australia. For the gay community, from around World War II up until the 1950s, the fountain was a 'beat'. Indeed it was a meeting place for men who wanted to pick up other men for casual and consensual lovemaking.
A living statue attraction, as a performance, is the artist's ability to stand motionless and occasionally come to life to comic or startling effect. [ citation needed ] These performers, also known as human statues, [ 2 ] are often completely covered in paint, often gold or silver in colour.
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The statue is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, along with several other examples of the artist's most important early works. The sculpture depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne (Phoebus and Daphne), as written in Ovid's Metamorphoses, wherein the nymph Daphne escapes Apollo's advances by transforming into a laurel tree.
After its unveiling in 1886, the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, quickly became iconic, and began to be featured on posters, postcards, pictures and books. The statue's likeness has also appeared in films, television programs, music videos, and video games, and has been used in logos, on ...
Tanagra figurine representing woman sitting. Tanagra was an unimportant city in antiquity. The city had come to the attention of historians and archeologists during the early 19th century after war broke out between the Turks and their allies, the British and the French, following a warning of a French invasion.
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