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Christopher Columbus Statue located at Columbus Plaza in Arrigo Park, Little Italy, Chicago. Temporarily removed by orders of Mayor Lori Lightfoot on July 24, 2020. [ 177 ]
Christopher Columbus, or simply Columbus, is a 1955 sculpture by Edoardo Alfieri, originally installed outside Columbus, Ohio 's City Hall, in the United States. The statue was unveiled in 1955, celebrating Christopher Columbus 's voyages to the New World. It was removed in July 2020.
With one quick tug, a 14-foot-tall Carrara marble statue of Christopher Columbus fell, shattering into pieces. The crowd of more than a hundred, gathered in Baltimore’s Little Italy...
At least 36 monuments to Columbus have been removed since the 1970s. But most Americans aren’t ready to scrub the explorer's name from the calendar. A statue of Christopher Columbus — one...
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.
Portrait of Christopher Columbus, 1519. Long before Columbus became the symbol of Italian American identity, he was mythologized by a largely Protestant America as a heroic explorer who paved the...
The Columbus Fountain features a statue of Christopher Columbus, a globe, and figures representing the old and new worlds. Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer who in 1492 sailed west in the Atlantic Ocean for the Spanish monarchy, opening the age of European exploration and colonization of the Americas. Sculptor: Lorado Taft.
The statue of Christopher Columbus was erected on the Capitol grounds in 1931 to show support for Italian immigrants, but in doing so, some believe it erased centuries of Native American...
A statue of Christopher Columbus at Grant Park in Chicago is removed early on July 24, 2020. DEREK R. HENKLE/AFP/Getty Images. Since June, statues of Columbus have been either toppled by...
The City’s most well-known monument to Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) is located at the center of Columbus Circle, near the Park’s southwest corner. A colossal figure of Columbus stands atop a column pierced by three boats, the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa María, on a pedestal adorned with…