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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper -clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France , was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its ...
Anubis seated on a tomb-shrine, symbolizing his protection of the necropolis. The shrine is mounted on a sledge-shaped palanquin which has two carrying poles projecting from the front and back. It is therefore presumed that the Anubis shrine was used in the funerary procession of the Pharaoh before being placed in front of the canopic chest in ...
The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, New York.The globe was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Public art in New York City includes statues, memorials, murals, fountains, and other forms. The city's parks have been described as the "greatest outdoor public art museum" in the United States. [1]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), which owns The Sphere, considered placing the sculpture in Liberty Park, located between the 90 West Street building and the World Trade Center Memorial site. Liberty Park would not be constructed until at least 2014, so a temporary location was needed to place The Sphere. By February 2011 ...
Cast in 1902 and dedicated on May 30, 1903, the gilded-bronze monument consists of an equestrian statue of Sherman and an accompanying statue, Victory, an allegorical female figure of the Greek goddess Nike. [3] The statues are set on a Stony Creek granite pedestal designed by the architect Charles Follen McKim. [4]
The Richard Morris Hunt Memorial is an exedra of granite and marble, dedicated to the memory of the architect Richard Morris Hunt, designed by Bruce Price with three sculptures by Daniel Chester French, a bust of Hunt, and two flanking statues representing (to the left) painting and sculpture (to the right) architecture.
The Columbus Circle globe is a sculpture of a globe by Kim Brandell, installed outside Trump International Hotel and Tower at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City. The globe is a homage to the Unisphere , located in Donald Trump 's home borough of Queens . [ 1 ]