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A replica of the Statue of Liberty is located near the Lincoln High School in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. [68] A bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty resides in Neenah, Wisconsin. It was cast in California by the Great American Bronze Works. This version of the Statue of Liberty is 14 feet, 6 inches tall. It is 10 percent the size of the ...
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper -clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France , was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its ...
The United States Capitol. The statue crowning the dome, Statue of Freedom, is over 19 feet tall. Since 1856, the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., has featured some of the most prominent art in the United States, including works by Constantino Brumidi, [1] [2] Vinnie Ream and Allyn Cox.
Depicts the statue's original copper-bronze hue, but situates it facing southward instead of eastward. Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge are visible in the background. Reason A high resolution Currier and Ives chromolithograph of the Statue of Liberty published one year before the statue was erected. Restored version of File:Currier and Ives ...
True Light on the Statue of Liberty and Her Creator. Moreno, Barry (2000). The Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-86227-1. New York Public Library. Liberty: the French-American statue in art and history (Harper & Row, 1986). Price, Willadene. Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty (Rand McNally, 1959).
The statue is 95 inches (2.4 m) high and is mounted on a rectangular marble base 80 inches (2.0 m) high. It was erected to honor the city's soldiers who participated in World War I, and is the only sculptural memorial in Arkansas from that war that is not a doughboy statue. [2] The memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...
The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a United States national monument comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island in the states of New Jersey and New York. [5] It includes the 1886 Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty Museum, both situated on Liberty Island, as well as the former immigration station at Ellis ...
While planning the design and construction of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi interested Viollet-le-Duc, his friend and mentor, in the project. [28] As chief engineer, [28] Viollet-le-Duc designed a brick pier within the statue, to which the skin would be anchored. [29]