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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.
[116] [117] Stonewall Jackson's bust was dedicated one year later in May 1957, [118] followed that December by the busts of Westinghouse and Gibbs. [119] [120] NYU wished to unveil Wilbur Wright's bust alongside that of his brother Orville Wright, who had died in 1948 and was thus ineligible for nomination until the 1970s. NYU's senate waived ...
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A bronze sculpture placed on a limestone tablet (104 x 48 x 10 in.), Socrates is a portrait mask of the Greek Athenian philosopher Socrates. He is depicted as being bald and with a beard. To the lower left of the beard is engraved: W.V. CASEY and below the bronze bust on the tablet is inscribed: SOCRATES UNTIL PHILOSOPHERS ARE KINGS, OR THE
A plaque and a palm tree weren't enough to mark the swagger and star power of Burt Reynolds. “Anybody else want to touch him?” Loni Anderson, Reynolds' wife from 1988 to 1994, asked the small ...
Upon his return from France to his hometown Florence in 1545, Benvenuto cast a bronze bust of Cosimo I Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The decorative head located on the right shoulder of this bust is a self-portrait of Cellini, composed with lineaments of satyr, lion and man. [ 9 ]
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.
Zenos Frudakis (born July 7, 1951), known as Frudakis [dubious – discuss], is an American sculptor whose diverse body of work includes monuments, memorials, portrait busts and statues of living and historic individuals, military subjects, sports figures and animal sculpture.