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  2. Vulcan statue - Wikipedia

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    The statue was shipped to St. Louis as Birmingham's entry into the 1904 World's Fair. Vulcan dramatically demonstrated the mineral riches and manufacturing capabilities of the Birmingham area while on display in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition's "Palace of Mines and Metallurgy".

  3. Sheffield Town Hall - Wikipedia

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    The friezes depict the industries of Sheffield, and the 64-metre-high clock-tower is surmounted by a statue of Vulcan. The clock, by Potts of Leeds, was provided with striking and chiming trains, [6] but bells were never installed in the clock-tower so they remained unused. In 2002 an electronic bell sound system was added to provide hourly ...

  4. Vulcan (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Vulcan is the patron god of the English steel-making city of Sheffield. His statue stands on top of Sheffield Town Hall. [citation needed] The Vulcan statue located in Birmingham, Alabama is the largest cast iron statue in the world. [80] A 12-foot-tall and 1200-pound Vulcan statue at California University of Pennsylvania serves as the school's ...

  5. List of statues - Wikipedia

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    Statue Park, Szoborpark or Statue Park is a park in Budapest's XXII. district, with a gathering of monumental Soviet-era statues. Liberty Statue, The Szabadság Szobor or Liberty Statue (sometimes Freedom Statue) in Budapest, Hungary, was first erected in 1947 in remembrance of the Soviet liberation of Hungary from Nazi forces during World War II.

  6. Bust of the Saviour - Wikipedia

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    1679. (1679) Location. San Sebastiano fuori le mura, Rome. Preceded by. Statue of Pope Clement X. The Bust of the Saviour (Salvator Mundi) is the last sculpture created by baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who died from the after-effects of a stroke, when the artist was 81 years old. He left the sculpture in his will to his friend and patron ...

  7. Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan - Wikipedia

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    Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan (Spanish: Apolo en la Fragua de Vulcano), sometimes referred to as Vulcan's Forge, is an oil painting by Diego de Velázquez completed after his first visit to Italy in 1629. Critics agree that the work should be dated to 1630, the same year as his companion painting Joseph's Tunic.

  8. Mount Vesuvius - Wikipedia

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    17–23 March 1944. Climbing. Easiest route. Walk. Mount Vesuvius (/ vɪˈsuːviəs / viss-OO-vee-əs) [a] is a somma – stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes forming the Campanian volcanic arc.

  9. David (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    David. (Michelangelo) David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble [1][2] created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo. With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the High Renaissance, and since classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond.

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