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The Columbus Monument is a 76-foot (23 m) column in the center of Columbus Circle in New York City honoring the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who first made an expedition to the New World in 1492. The monument was created by Italian sculptor Gaetano Russo in 1892.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 44.6 × 21.9 × 21.8 More images: The Burghers of Calais: 1884 to 1889 Bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 201.6 × 205.4 × 195.9 More images: Kneeling Female Faun: 1884 Bronze Gates of Hell, Musée Rodin, Paris More images: Torso of Adele: 1884 Plaster Musée Rodin, Paris 11×37.5 More ...
Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South (West 59th Street), and Central Park West, at the southwest corner of Central Park.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) The Thinker in front of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable ...
You Must Change Your Life: the Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin, New York: W. W. Norton and Company. ISBN 0393245063. Elsen, Albert (1980). In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801413292. Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette (2014). Rodin. New York: Abbeville.
The statue replicates one made by Jeronimo Suñol in 1892, [2] located at the Plaza de Colon, in Madrid. The New York version was placed in the park in 1894 at the foot of the Mall, and is today one of two monuments of Columbus found in the park's environs, the other being the statue surmounting the column at Columbus Circle .
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The USS Maine National Monument is an outdoor monument located at the Merchants' Gate entrance to Central Park, at Columbus Circle, in Manhattan, New York City. It was cast on September 1, 1912 and dedicated on May 30, 1913 to the men killed aboard USS Maine (ACR-1) when the ship exploded in Havana harbor .