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One month later, an equestrian statue of King George III was erected. It was executed by the British sculptor Joseph Wilton. [3] Commissioned in 1764 and cast in lead covered with gold leaf, the Neoclassical statue showed King George dressed in Roman garb astride a horse, the whole effect being reminiscent of the Marcus Aurelius statue in Rome.
Statue of Don Juan de Oñate called The Equestrian in El Paso, Texas - At 36 feet (11 m) tall, it is purported by the sculptor to be the largest bronze equestrian statue in the world. Statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas - At 66 feet (20 m) tall, it is the tallest statue of any American political figure.
Spinning Top (sculpture) Springfield Doughnut; Stalin Monument (Budapest) Stalin Monument (Prague) Statue of Alexander Wood; Statue of Andrés Manuel López Obrador; Statue of Christopher Columbus (Baltimore) Statue of George Washington (Portland, Oregon) Statue of Joseph Stalin, Berlin; Statue of Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc; Statue of the Empress ...
The $189,000 statue, a 13 ft. faceless depiction of the late Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, in cascading gold and black academic robes, was erected outside a Cambridge ...
[2] 17 statues have since then been removed and replaced. The National Statuary Hall Collection comprises 60 statues of bronze and 39 of marble . Several sculptors have created multiple statues for the collection, the most prolific being Charles Henry Niehaus who sculpted eight statues currently and formerly in the collection.
A new statue of Queen Elizabeth II is facing backlash, with some calling the effort to depict her a royal misfire. The bronze statue of the late queen was unveiled Sept. 6 in Northern Ireland ...
Activists for racial justice and gay rights held a press conference in front of the statue on Broadway Circle at Horton Plaza Park on October 12, 2020, "in the wake of nationwide demands for the removal of statues of confederate generals and people who owned slaves". The statue was removed on October 15 due to "safety concerns".
Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune: Mary McLeod Bethune: U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Future To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith. Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved: African Americans enslaved by the College of William & Mary College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: May 2022 [9] Emancipation and ...