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The Discovery of America, as well as other charged artworks commissioned to adorn the Capitol building, contributed to the iconography which informed westward expansion.. Many works of art created for the Capitol building were even used by congressmen to support political movements west, due to their underlying symbolism related to Manifest Destiny – specifically the inherent Anglo-American ...
The Monument to the Discoveries represented a romanticized idealization of the Portuguese exploration that was typical of the Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. It was originally constructed as a temporary construction, located in the Praça do Império as part of an urban renewal project favoured by minister Duarte Pacheco ...
The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a United States national monument comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island in the states of New Jersey and New York. [5] It includes the 1886 Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty Museum, both situated on Liberty Island, as well as the former immigration station at Ellis ...
A digger driver says the statue, thought to date back 1,800 years, is his "best-ever discovery".
Christopher Columbus, also known as the Christopher Columbus Discovery Monument, [1] is a c. 1890–1892 copper sculpture depicting Christopher Columbus by Alfonso Pelzer, installed on the Ohio Statehouse grounds, in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Thorfinn Karlsefni is a bronze statue of Norse explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni, created by Icelandic sculptor Einar Jónsson.The first casting was located in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, United States, before being toppled by vandals in 2018.
8 – Bulgarian archaeologists discovered, at the site of the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica, a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god Hermes. [ 91 ] 9 – The discovery of a 4,000-year-old ceremonial temple and a theater with a huge stone depicting a mythological bird figure was announced at the archaeological site La Otra ...
A bronze statue from the Titanic — not seen in decades and feared to be lost for good — is among the discoveries made by the company with salvage rights to the wreck site on its first ...