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The John Donne Memorial is a bronze bust of John Donne by Nigel Boonham, installed in the garden to the south of St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom. Donne faces east towards his birthplace on Bread Street. Below the bust is an inscription with the text
The sculpture of Nepal is best known for small religious figures and ritual objects in bronze or copper alloy, but also has other strengths. The Newar people of Nepal had a long-lasting specialism in casting small bronze figures, mostly religious and especially Buddhist, considerable numbers of which were exported to India and Tibet over many centuries.
The Boxer at Rest, also known as the Terme Boxer, Seated Boxer, Defeated Boxer, or Boxer of the Quirinal, is a bronze sculpture, a Hellenistic Greek original, [1] of a sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing his himantes (Ancient Greek: ἱμάντες, romanized: himántes, plural of ἱμάς, himás, 'a leathern strap or thong' [2]), a type of leather hand-wrap.
The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale (Russian: Медный всадник: Петербургская повесть, romanized: Mednyy vsadnik: Peterburgskaya povest) is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833 about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of 1824. While the poem was ...
A plaque and a palm tree weren't enough to mark the swagger and star power of Burt Reynolds. “Anybody else want to touch him?” Loni Anderson, Reynolds' wife from 1988 to 1994, asked the small ...
He says he plans to donate the $20,000 to the university and has, as of Saturday, raised almost $10,000.
Bronze [78] Dennis Chavez Statue: 1966 Felix W. de Weldon: Senate Wing, 2nd Floor, U.S. Capitol Building: Bronze: A brown bronze statue of Dennis Chavez. He is holding a hat in his right hand, and is looking to the left. The pedestal that the statue sits atop is made of marble. [79] Discovery of Gold in California: 1855-1863 Constantino Brumidi ...
A plaque and a palm tree weren't enough to mark the swagger and star power of Burt Reynolds. That's why a bronze bust were unveiled on Monday, three years after the actor's death. (Sept. 22)