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The John Donne Memorial is a bronze bust of John Donne by Nigel Boonham, installed in the garden to the south of St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom. Donne faces east towards his birthplace on Bread Street. Below the bust is an inscription with the text
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. [1] The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," and "Our Grandmothers" appeared in And Still I Rise (1978) and "Weekend Glory" appeared in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing ...
The removal of almost all the many wall-paintings in English churches in the iconoclasm of the English Reformation and the English Commonwealth left plenty of bare spaces. . Over the following centuries, these were gradually filled by monuments of the weal
To help you spread the word and capture the spirit of IWD on March 8, read—and share—this list of 100+ International Women's Day quotes. Related: 150 Feminist Quotes That Celebrate Strong ...
The larger-than-life statue was created by the husband-and-wife artist team Gillie and Marc Shattner (who earlier made a bronze bust of her with her approval), as part of their Statues for Equality initiative. [10] [11] [12] Through 2019, only five of New York City's 150 monuments commemorated real-life women.
The cast was then dipped 20 or more times into a ceramic slurry to form the molds into which 6,000 pounds (2.7 t) of bronze, melted in a crucible, were poured, 400 pounds (180 kg) at a time. These bronze blocks were sand blasted, fitted, and welded together to form the final sculpture.
The sculpture features a life-size bust of Johnson made of bronze with holes to insert flowers. [2] It is a work of guerrilla art but was later approved by New York Park Services, making it the first sculpture of a transgender person in New York City.
The bust of Piotr Wysocki, [a] also known as the Piotr Wysocki Monument, [b] is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, located in the Royal Baths Park, within the Downtown district. The sculpture consists of a bronze bust depicting Piotr Wysocki, a 19th-century military officer, a colonel in the Army of Congress Poland, and one of the organisers and commanders of the November Uprising.