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Apotheosis of St. Louis is a statue of King Louis IX of France, namesake of St. Louis, Missouri, located in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park.Part of the iconography of St. Louis, the statue was the principal symbol of the city between its erection in 1906 and the construction of the Gateway Arch in the mid-1960s.
He was raised in Old Town Florissant, a suburb of St. Louis, by his parents, Harry and Margaret Meyer. [3] He graduated from McBride High School, taught by members of the Marianist order. He entered the order in 1947 and took his final vows in 1952. [4] He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Dayton in Ohio. He taught ...
Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned [1] American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. [2]Eads' great Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1964 and on October 21, 1974 was listed as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American ...
Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians .
Aristotle is called the father of political science largely because of his work entitled Politics. This treatise is divided into eight books, and deals with subjects such as citizenship, democracy, oligarchy and the ideal state. [211] *Machiavelli is considered the 'modern father of political science' [212]
The lengthy book contains three parts. The first section is a traditional narrative of Louis from his birth to his canonization, [3] while the second section is about the views of his contemporaries on him. The third section "locates Louis in both the spiritual and secular world of the day-to-day". [4]
The park was 76 acres (0.31 km 2) at its opening in 1975, but did not attract many visitors until a year later, when St. Louis sculptor Ernest Trova donated about 40 pieces of his work to the park. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] It soon became a popular tourist attraction, and received an additional 20 acres (0.081 km 2 ) from the Friends of Laumeier. [ 5 ]
Louis is honored to this day by the statue of him in Forest Park, The Apotheosis of St. Louis. The spelling Saint Louis usually refers to the person, while St. Louis refers to the city. The Fleur-de-lis, emblem of the French monarchy, is on the flag of St. Louis City and is used extensively throughout the region on the logos of various ...