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The bronze sculptural group topping off the monument depicts a meeting of Columbus with Queen Isabella, seated on her throne. The upper part of the pedestal serves as a staircase on which Columbus stops to bow to the queen. [4] The sculptural group was also reportedly set to include a figure of Boabdil, but the idea just fell apart. [5]
The Monument to Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Monumento a Isabel la Católica) is an instance of public art located in Madrid, Spain. A work by Manuel Oms , the monument is a sculptural bronze ensemble consisting of an equestrian statue of Isabella of Castile, accompanied by Pedro González de Mendoza and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.
Queen Isabella, also known as Queen Isabella (1451–1504), [1] is an outdoor sculpture of Isabella I of Castile, installed outside the Pan American Union Building of the Organization of American States at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
Bronze remained in use, however due to its intrinsic value such tombs were often dismaltled and the material sold on; today only English examples survive. [22] The early "chest tombs" were typically built from several stone panels, with a cavity (often filled with rubble) to support the effigy.
The Nuragic civilization in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia produced a large number of small bronze statues, known as bronzetti (Nuragic bronze statuettes), starting from the 12th century BCE. [6] The 7th-8th century Sri Lankan Sinhalese bronze statue of Buddhist Tara, now in the British Museum, is an example of Sri Lankan bronze statues.
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The statue was sculpted by Rafael Atché and is said to depict Columbus pointing towards the New World with his right hand, while holding a scroll in the left. The statue points south-southeast (a more southerly direction than the adjacent Rambla Del Mar and almost a perfect extension of the direction of La Rambla, Barcelona ) and in effect is ...
The Queen Isabel II Statue (Filipino: Bantayog ni Reyna Isabel II or Monumento ni Reyna Isabel II; Spanish: Monumento a la Reina Isabel II) is located in front of Puerta Isabel II in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines. It is made of bronze and was funded by donations collected from the city in 1854 and 1855.