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Similar Hebe fountains, probably also from Mott, are located in Court Square, Memphis, Tennessee and in Montgomery, Alabama, and one with bronze patination was formerly the Starkweather Fountain in Ypsilanti, Michigan, installed in 1889. [63] There is a bronze statue of Hebe, by Robert Thomas; (1966), in Birmingham city centre, England. [64]
English: Statue of the Greek goddess Hebe (Roman Juventas), by Johan Niclas Bystrom (1783-1848) at the Gripsholm Castle, Mariefred, Södermanland, Sweden. Date 14 July 2019, 19:27:12
On top of the fountain is a statue of Hebe, the Greek goddess of eternal youth. [6] The fountain itself is made of cast iron. The statues came from a catalog of zinc iron statues: on top, a " Canova's Hebe ", one layer down four "Seated Boys" holding towels, one layer down four "Narcissus" figures, and at the bottom a "Stem Bitterns", "a group ...
English: The Hebe Fountain in Eagles Park, Roseburg, Oregon, U.S. (circa 2002), features a replica of a sculpture of Hebe by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. A Hebe Fountain stood from 1908 to 1912 at the corner of Cass and Main in Roseburg; it was damaged by a runaway team of horses, never re-erected, and its whereabouts are unknown.
Originally placed in 1908 by the Women's Village Improvement Society, a gold-painted iron statue of Hebe, the Greek goddess of youth and happiness, has remained on the Crawford County Courthouse lawn ever since. The Women's league of Van Buren raised funds, and the original Hebe was replaced after falling to disrepair.
These include Hebe in Birmingham city centre (at ) and Aneurin Bevan in Cardiff He has also produced busts, one of which, again of Aneurin Bevan, is located in the Houses of Parliament . Thomas's Mother and Child sculpture, commissioned for the building of a new shopping precinct at Coalville , Leicestershire won him the Sir Otto Beit prize for ...
On Olympus, Zeus granted Ganymede eternal youth and immortality as the official cup bearer to the gods, in place of Hebe, who was relieved of cup-bearing duties upon her marriage to Herakles. Alternatively, the Iliad presented Hebe (and at one instance, Hephaestus) as the cup bearer of the gods with Ganymede acting as Zeus's personal cup bearer.
Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish: [ˈpɛɐ̯tl̩ ˈtsʰɒːˌvælˀsn̩]; sometimes given as Thorwaldsen; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor and medalist of international fame, [1] who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy.