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Gloria Victis ("glory to the vanquished") is a sculpture by Antonin Mercié. Many casts, with different finishes, exist of the group. That pictured here is seen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Another example of the statue can be found in Bordeaux, France, where it faces Saint André's Cathedral.
In front of it, according to Anikushin's idea, the Winners should be placed: the statues Soldier and Worker. The authors could not come up with a successful completion of the obelisk itself. They suggested a golden wreath of glory, the Order of Victory, a statue of the goddess of victory Nike, and an angel. Among Anikushin's proposals was the ...
The reliefs seem to have been produced during the construction of a Temple of Neptune on the Field of Mars. A general, probably Cn.Domitius Ahenobarbus, vowed to build a temple for the god of the sea after a naval victory, perhaps the one won off Samos in 129 or 128 BC against Aristonicus who had attempted to oppose the donation of Pergamon to Rome by the will of King Attalos III.
The Khufu Statuette or the Ivory figurine of Khufu is an ancient Egyptian statue. Historically and archaeologically significant, it was found in 1903 by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie during excavation of Kom el-Sultan in Abydos, Egypt.
Baroque allegorical figures of Lady Justice, Prudence, fame and glory, on the façade of the 17th century Castellania, in Valletta. Allegorical sculpture are sculptures of personifications of abstract ideas, as in allegory. [1]
Donovan McDaniel knows how hard it can be to let go. Still, he never imagined how tough it would be to let go of his son’s belief in Santa. On Dec. 1, the father of two shared the bittersweet ...
In 1933, Congress passed House Concurrent Resolution No. 47, which limited each state to only one statue in the Statuary Hall. Others would be distributed throughout the Capitol building. [1] In 2000, Congress amended a law to allow states to replace their statues. [2] 15 statues have since then been removed and replaced.
Trump’s political rebirth is unparalleled in American history. His first term ended in disgrace, with his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results culminating in the attack on the U.S ...