Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The King Matt the First Monument [a] is a monument in Szczecin, Poland, placed in front of the 54th Primary School, at 9 Rayskiego Street.It is dedicated to writer Janusz Korczak and consists of a statue depicting the titular character from his 1923 children's novel King Matt the First.
King Matt the First (Polish: Król MaciuĊ Pierwszy) is a children's novel published in 1923 by Polish author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue Janusz Korczak.In addition to telling the story of a young king's adventures, it describes many social reforms, particularly targeting children, some of which Korczak enacted in his own orphanage, and is a thinly veiled allegory of contemporary and ...
Sangiliyan Statue; Sculptures of Swedish rulers; John III Sobieski Monument (Warsaw) Apotheosis of St. Louis; Statue of Abu Ja'far al-Mansur; Statue of Charlemagne (Liège) Statue of Constantine the Great, York; Statue of Gilgamesh, University of Sydney; Statue of Louis XVI; Statue of Queen Victoria, Teldeniya; Statues of King Afonso Henriques ...
Work on War and Peace was interrupted by the war itself, [7] [8] from which Bayes was exempted because of this commission. [5] [9] Full size plaster statues were finally completed in 1919, [9] cast in England in 1923, shipped separately to Sydney in 1924 (first War in February, [10] then Peace in June [11]) and erected in 1926.
Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack, original name Jan Michiel Rijsbrack, often referred to simply as Michael Rysbrack [1] (24 June 1694 [2] – 8 January 1770), was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor, who spent most of his career in England where he was one of the foremost sculptors of monuments, architectural decorations and portraits in the first half of the 18th century.
The stonemason who sculpted a statue of the Queen for the entrance to York Minster said it was his first portrait piece. In front of hundreds of people outside the 850-year-old cathedral, the King ...
The Landmark for Peace is a memorial sculpture in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park on the northside of Indianapolis. It honors the contributions of the slain leaders Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. The memorial, which features Kennedy and King reaching out to each other, was designed and executed by Indiana artist Greg Perry.
His statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham was the first statue of Nelson unveiled in Britain. There are other monuments to Nelson by Westmacott at the Bull Ring, Birmingham , in Barbados , [ citation needed ] while that at Liverpool was modelled and cast by Westmacott, to a design by Matthew Cotes Wyatt .