langs: 17 апреля [ru] / april 17 [en] / 17. april [de] / 17 avril [fr] / 17 aprile [it] / 17 de abril [es]
days: april 14 / april 15 / april 16 / april 17 / april 18 / april 19 / april 20
#1 Wesley Wehr
Wesley Conrad Wehr (April 17, 1929 – April 12, 2004) was an American paleontologist and artist best known for his studies of Cenozoic fossil floras in western North America, the Stonerose Interpretive Center , and as a part of the Northwest School of art . Wehr published two books with University of
#2 Chawky Frenn
Chawky Frenn is a Lebanese-born American artist, author, and art professor. [1] [2] He currently teaches art at George Mason University in northern Virginia. [3] His highly realistic paintings have strong narrative social and political elements. [1] Frenn is a former Fulbright scholar , [4] [5] and
#3 Georg Decker
Georg Decker (7 December 1818 – 13 February 1894) was an Austro-Hungarian portrait artist . Georg Decker Born ( 1818-12-07 ) 7 December 1818 Pest , Kingdom of Hungary Died 13 February 1894 (1894-02-13) (aged 75) Vienna , Austria Nationality Austro-Hungarian Alma mater Academy of Fine Arts, Vienn
#4 Enric Galwey
Enric Galwey i Garcia or, in Spanish, Enrique Galwey y García (1864 – 10 February 1931) was a Spanish painter, associated with the Olot school of landscape painting. Spanish painter In this Catalan name , the first or paternal surname is Galwey and the second or maternal family name is Garcia ; both
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky ( UK : / ˌ m aɪ ə ˈ k ɒ f s k i / , [1] US : / ˌ m ɑː j ə ˈ k ɔː f s k i / ; [2] Russian : Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский , IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj] ( listen ) ; 19 July [ O.S. 7 July ] 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Russian and Sov
#6 Alexi Worth
Alexi Worth (born 1964, New York, NY) is a painter, curator, art critic, and writer who is known for his conceptually rich and visually graphic works that address modern life and artmaking. He is currently represented by DC Moore Gallery, New York. [1] American painter Alexi Worth Born Alexi Worth (
#7 Hana Usui
Hana Usui ( ウスイ ハナ , Usui Hana , born April 17, 1974 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese artist. Japanese artist (born 1974) Hana Usui Born ( 1974-04-17 ) April 17, 1974 (age 48) Tokyo Nationality Japanese Known for Drawing Hana Usui was born in Tokyo in 1974 and studied art history at Waseda University an
William Grinsell Nicholl (London 1796 – 1871) was a British 19th-century architectural and monumental sculptor. William Grinsell Nicholl William Grinsell Nicholl, mid 1860s, photographer unknown. Born ( 1796-11-04 ) 4 November 1796 Pancras, London Died 8 December 1871 (1871-12-08) (aged 75) Acton
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (born 1985) [1] is an American artist, activist, and freelance illustrator. She is best known as the creator of the campaign and art exhibition Stop Telling Women to Smile. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] American artist, activist, and freelance illustrator Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Born Oklahom
Serge Attukwei Clottey (born 1985) is a Ghanaian artist who works across installation , performance , photography and sculpture. [1] He is the creator of Afrogallonism, an artistic concept, which he describes as 'an artistic concept to explore the relationship between the prevalence of the yellow oi
#11 Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni ( Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo di lodoˈviːko ˌbwɔnarˈrɔːti siˈmoːni] ; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known simply as Michelangelo ( English: / ˌ m aɪ k əl ˈ æ n dʒ ə l oʊ , ˌ m ɪ k -/ [1] ), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the Hig
#12 Kaja Norum
Kaja Norum (born April 17, 1989) [1] is a Norwegian model and figurativist painter . [2] A former student and protégé of painter Odd Nerdrum , [3] Norum is devoted to Nerdrum's philosophy of Kitsch painting , and is a part of The Kitsch Movement spawned by Nerdrum. After the latter relocated to Fran
Kurt von Holleben (7 March 1894 – 14 January 1947) was a German chemist working for Agfa-Gevaert Technical-Scientific Laboratory as the head of the colour screen research group, overseeing development of Additive color screens (kornraster) for the Agfa-Farbenplatte glass plates (1916), and film base
#14 Yirawala
Yirawala (c.1897 – 17 April 1976) was an Aboriginal Australian leader, labourer and painter. He was born in the Northern Territory , which at the time was responsibility of the state of South Australia , and died in Minjilang, otherwise known as Croker Island . [1] [2] [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2
Walter Farrington Moses was an American Landscape painter. American painter Walter Farrington Moses Born ( 1874-04-17 ) April 17, 1874 Sterling, Illinois Died ( 1947-10-25 ) October 25, 1947 Los Angeles, California Nationality American Known for Painter After studying at the School of the Art Inst
Lilly Martin Spencer (born Angelique Marie Martin ; November 26, 1822 – May 22, 1902) was one of the most popular and widely reproduced American female genre painters in the mid-nineteenth century. She primarily painted domestic scenes, paintings of women and children in a warm happy atmosphere, alt
Charles Gough (1784 – April 1805) was an artist of the early English romantic movement in the 18th and 19th centuries. He did not achieve significant fame in his lifetime, but after his mysterious death in 1805, he became seen as a martyr, and an icon of the romantic vision. The story of his death w
Keith Henderson OBE RP RSW RWS ROI (17 April 1883 – 24 February 1982) was a Scottish painter who worked in both oils and watercolours, and who is known for his book illustrations and his poster work for London Transport and the Empire Marketing Board . [1] He had a long professional career that incl
#19 Teodor and Franciszek Gajewski
Brothers Teodor and Franciszek Gajewski were sculptors and painters , who lived in Bydgoszcz , Poland in the 20th century. Sculptor, painter, Poland, 20th century Teodor and Franciszek Gajewski Franciszek (left), Teodor (right) Born ( 1897-01-30 ) January 30, 1897 (Franciszek), ( 1902-05-30 ) May 30
Margarita Azurdia (born April 17, 1931 in Antigua, Guatemala , died July 1, 1998 in Guatemala City, Guatemala ), who also worked under the pseudonyms Margot Fanjul, Margarita Rita Rica Dinamita, and Anastasia Margarita, was a feminist Guatemalan sculptor, painter, poet, and performance artist. [1] [
Palazzo Abatellis (also known as Palazzo Patella ) is a palazzo in Palermo , Sicily , southern Italy , located in the Kalsa quarter. It is home to the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia , the Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region. The main façade of the palace
#2 Museum of East Asian Art, Bath
The Museum of East Asian Art or MEAA is in Bennett Street, Bath , Somerset , England. A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. ( May 2021 ) Museum of East Asian Art Location within Somerset and the United Kingdom Established 1993 Location Bath , Somers
The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts ) is an art museum in Honolulu , Hawai ʻ i . The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke . The museum has one of the largest single collections of Asian and Pan-Pacific art in the Uni
#4 Children's Museum of Los Angeles
The Children's Museum of Los Angeles opened to the public on June 11, 1979, and operated for 21 years. It was located at the Los Angeles Mall in the Los Angeles Civic Center . It specifically catered to children, with the purpose of educating, entertaining, and enriching children's lives in the grea
The Kunstkring Art Gallery (Indonesian: Galeri Seni Kunstkring ) is a heritage building located in Central Jakarta , Indonesia . Built in 1914, following the design of Dutch architect P.A.J. Moojen , it originally housed the local art circle. After several changes of use, in 2011 the building has be
The Swedish History Museum ( Swedish : Historiska museet or Statens historiska museum ) is a museum located in Stockholm , Sweden, that covers Swedish archaeology and cultural history from the Mesolithic period to present day. Founded in 1866, it operates as a government agency and is tasked with pr
The Willard Gallery was a contemporary art gallery operating in New York City from 1940 until 1987. It was founded by Marian Willard Johnson. [1]
Murray Art Museum Albury (abbreviated MAMA) is a contemporary art museum located in Albury , Australia . Formerly known as the Albury Regional Art Gallery it was renamed as part of a $10.5 million refurbishment which included renovations to the former gallery building, the neighbouring burrows house
#9 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts , which houses significant examples of European , Asian , and American art . Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner , whose will called for
#10 Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts (N/BMFA) ( 名古屋ボストン美術館 , Nagoya Bosuton Bijutsukan ) was an art museum located in Nagoya , Japan . This article needs additional citations for verification . ( December 2009 ) Kanayama South Building where the museum was located
#11 Stuckism International Gallery
The Stuckism International Gallery was the gallery of the Stuckist art movement. It was open from 2002 to 2005 in Shoreditch , and was run by Charles Thomson , the co-founder of Stuckism. It was launched by a procession carrying a coffin marked "The death of conceptual art " to the neighbouring Whit
The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) is one of the principal U.S. art museums , with paintings , sculptures , cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from all corners of the world. Its three-story building stands in Forest Park in St. Louis , Missouri , where it is visited by up to a half million pe
#13 Volker Diehl
Volker Diehl (born 28 May 1957 in Neheim-Hüsten ) is a German gallery owner. He mainly exhibits contemporary art in the gallery "DIEHL" ( Berlin ). German art dealer Volker Diehl Born ( 1957-05-28 ) May 28, 1957 Neheim-Hüsten , West Germany Nationality German Occupation Gallery owner
#14 Queensland Centre for Photography
The Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) was an artist-run photographic institution that operated from 2004 until 2014. The Board, at a general meeting of the QCP held on 17 April, decided unanimously to close its Brisbane exhibition venue, following the withdrawal of core funding announced Octob
The Kunsthaus Bregenz (KUB) presents temporary exhibitions of international contemporary art in Bregenz , Vorarlberg ( Austria ). Contemporary art museum in Austria This article needs additional citations for verification . ( May 2011 ) Kunsthaus Bregenz Kunsthaus Bregenz Established 1990–1997 Locat
#16 Koffler Centre of the Arts
The Koffler Centre of the Arts is a broad-based cultural institution established in 1977 by Murray and Marvelle Koffler and based at Artscape Youngplace in the West Queen West area of downtown Toronto , Ontario . [1] Koffler Centre of the Arts Location of the Koffler in Toronto Established 1977 Loca
#17 North Carolina Museum of Art
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina . It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding. [1] Since the initial 1947 appropriation that established its collection, the Museum has continue
The Stanley Spencer Gallery is an art museum in the South of England dedicated to the life and work of the artist Stanley Spencer . It was opened in 1962 and is located in the Thameside village of Cookham , Berkshire where the artist was born and spent much of his life. The gallery's collection comp
#19 The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop
The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop (1973–2010) was an Australian photography gallery established in South Yarra , a suburb of Melbourne , and which ran almost continuously for nearly forty years. Its representation, in the 1970s and 1980s, of contemporary and mid-century, mostly American and so
The John J. Glessner House , operated as the Glessner House , is an architecturally important 19th-century residence located at 1800 S. Prairie Avenue , Chicago, Illinois . Built during the Gilded Age , it was designed in 1885–1886 by architect Henry Hobson Richardson and completed in late 1887. The
#1 Standing Twelve Heavenly Generals (Tokyo National Museum)
Standing Twelve Heavenly Generals ( 十二神将立像 ) is a set of five anonymous wooden sculptures from the 13th century depicting the Twelve Heavenly Generals , now part of the collection of the Tokyo National Museum . [1] Together with the other seven figures of the set (owned by the Seikadō Bunko Art Muse
The John Paul Jones Memorial is a monument in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. The memorial honors John Paul Jones , the United States ' first naval war hero, father of the United States Navy , the only naval officer to receive a Congressional Gold Medal during the American Revolutionary War ,
The Enigma of Hitler is an oil on canvas painting by Salvador Dalí , created in 1939. It was made around the time of his expulsion from the Surrealist movement . [1] Painting by Salvador Dalí Dalí related that the painting was an interpretation of several dreams he had about Hitler – one had shown N
#4 Self-Portrait (Annibale Carracci)
Self-Portrait is a 1593 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci , now in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma . [1] It is dated 17 April 1593 on the top left of the canvas. Painting by Annibale Carracci Self-Portrait Artist Annibale Carracci Year 1593 ( 1593 ) Dimensions 24 cm × 20 cm (9.4
The Polish Rider is a seventeenth-century painting, usually dated to the 1650s, of a young man traveling on horseback through a murky landscape, now in The Frick Collection in New York . [2] When the painting was sold by Zdzisław Tarnowski [ pl ] to Henry Frick in 1910, there was consensus that th
The Australian Farmer (also known as the Big Farmer ) is a statue located in Wudinna , South Australia . Regarded as one of Australia's Big Things , the granite sculpture stands at 8 metres (26 ft) in height, and weighs in the vicinity of 70 tonnes. It took 17 years to produce from initial proposa
#7 Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase
Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase (originally in French Femme nue montant l'escalier ) is a drawing done with pencil and charcoal on card made by Joan Miró in 1937. It is part of the permanent collection of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. [1] Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase French: Femme nue mo
#8 British Air Transport (painting)
British Air Transport – The Pioneering Days 1919–1934 is an 8.44-metre (27.7 ft) -long mural by William Kempster depicting, from left to right, a chronological sequence of events in the history of British aviation on the London to Paris route starting on the left with Hounslow Heath Aerodrome in 1
A Harlot's Progress (also known as The Harlot's Progress ) is a series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed) [1] and engravings (1732) [2] by the English artist William Hogarth . The series shows the story of a young woman, M. (Moll or Mary) Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and bec
Campbell's Soup Cans [1] (sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans ) [2] is a work of art produced between November 1961 and March or April 1962 [3] by American artist Andy Warhol . It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches (51 cm) in height × 16 inches (41 cm) in widt
The Bay of Pigs Monument is a monument in honor of the fallen of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Little Havana , Miami, Florida . Their names are engraved on the monument, and there is an eternal flame at the top. [1] The monument was dedicated on April 17, 1971, by "several hundred Cuban exiles" as wel
The Sistine Chapel ceiling ( Italian : Soffitto della Cappella Sistina ), painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art . The Sistine Chapel is the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV , for whom
Thirteen Most Wanted Men was a large mural created by Andy Warhol for the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair at Flushing Meadows , New York . The mural was painted over with silver paint before the fair opened, [1] probably due to official objections, but other reasons have been sugges
#14 Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision
Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision is one of the paintings that was made as a part of the Stuckism art movement, [1] [2] and is recognized as a "signature piece" for the movement, [3] It was painted by the Stuckism co-founder Charles Thomson in 2000, and has been exhibited in a numbe
#15 Fallen Astronaut
Fallen Astronaut is a 3.5-inch (8.9 cm) aluminum sculpture [1] created by Paul Van Hoeydonck. It is a small stylized figure, meant to depict an astronaut in a spacesuit, intended to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration. It was commissioned
We Have Always Lived Here is a 2015 public art installation by Greg A. Robinson, installed at Tilikum Crossing in Portland, Oregon , in the United States. The work consists of two traditional Chinook basalt carvings sited at both ends of the bridge, plus a bronze medallion on the northeast side of t
Tricia Collins is an American art critic , art gallerist and curator of contemporary art. She was half of the curatorial team Collins & Milazzo , with Richard Milazzo , who together co-published and co-edited Effects : Magazine for New Art Theory from 1982 to 1984. [1] She later ran the art galler
Robert Eisler (27 April 1882 – 17 December 1949) was an Austrian Jewish polymath who wrote about the topics of mythology , comparative religion , the Gospels , monetary policy , art history , history of science , psychoanalysis , politics , astrology , history of currency , and value theory . He lec
Stella Mary Newton OBE , née Pearce (17 April 1901, London – 18 May 2001, London) was an English fashion designer and dress historian, who brought the history of fashion to bear on art history and the dating of paintings. Stella Mary Pearce was the daughter of Georgiana Mary Hoby, a concert pianist,
Afif Bahnassi (17 April 1928 [1] – 2 November 2017) [2] was a Syrian Islamic art historian and museum curator, General Director of Antiquities and Museums in Damascus , Syria. [3] He has authored books such as The Ancient Syria and His Art (1987) and The Art of Islam , with Nurhan Atasoy , published
#5 Darío Suro
Darío Antonio Suro García-Godoy (June 13, 1917, La Vega – January 18, 1997, Santo Domingo ) was a Dominican painter, art critic , and diplomat from La Vega, Dominican Republic, remembered as one of the most influential Dominican artists from the 20th century. Suro's paintings encompassed a wide rang
#6 Paige Powell
Paige Powell (born 1950 or 1951) [1] is an American photographer, curator , art consultant , and animal rights activist . Powell was the public affairs director of the Portland Zoo before she moved to New York City in 1980. Between 1982 and 1994, she worked at Interview magazine. She started out sel
Yelena Yurievna Gagarina ( Russian : Еле́на Ю́рьевна Гага́рина ; born 17 April 1959, Zapolyarny, Murmansk Oblast , RSFSR , USSR [1] ) is a Soviet and Russian art historian. She is the General Director of the State historical and cultural Museum-reserve Moscow Kremlin Museums (since 2001), and the el
#8 Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II . His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-pag
Numa S. Trivas (1899 – 17 April 1942) was an art historian and collector who became a curator of art at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery . He was born in Nicolaef , Russia and studied at the Institute of Art History in Saint Petersburg , finishing his studies at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and the Uni
Mary Black , née Childs (7 April 1922 – 1992), was an American art historian . American art historian For other uses, see Mary Black (disambiguation) . Mary Black Born ( 1922-04-07 ) 7 April 1922 Pittsfield, Massachusetts Died 1992 (aged 69) Germantown, New York Nationality American Alma mater Uni
#11 Geoffrey Dutton
Geoffrey Piers Henry Dutton AO (2 August 1922 – 17 September 1998) was an Australian author and historian. Australian writer and historian
#12 Henry Vaughan (art collector)
Henry Vaughan (17 April 1809 – 26 November 1899) was a British art collector. He is best known for his many generous gifts and bequests to British and Irish public collections. Henry Vaughan Born ( 1809-04-17 ) 17 April 1809. Southwark, London Died 26 November 1899 (1899-11-26) (aged 90) Regent's
#13 Frank Popper
Frank Popper (17 April 1918 [1] – 12 July 2020) was a Czech-born French-British historian of art and technology and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art at the University of Paris VIII . He was decorated with the medal of the Légion d'honneur by the French Government. [2] He is au
#14 David Röell
David Cornelis Röell ( Utrecht , 23 November 1894 – Amsterdam , 3 December 1961 ) was a Dutch museum director David Röell (1945)
Gioacchino Di Marzo (2 December 1839 - 4 April 1916) was an Italian art historian, librarian and Jesuit. He was librarian to the Comunale di Palermo as well as a historiographer and one of the founders of modern Sicilian art history. This article includes a list of general references , but it lacks
#16 Otto Pächt
Otto Pächt (7 September 1902, Vienna - 17 April 1988, Vienna) was an Austrian art historian and one of the representatives of the second wave of the Vienna School of Art History . He mostly wrote on the medieval and Renaissance art of Europe. An exile from the Nazis, he taught in England and United
#17 Bernard Ashmole
Bernard Ashmole , CBE , MC (22 June 1894 – 25 February 1988) was a British archaeologist and art historian , who specialized in ancient Greek sculpture . He held a number of professorships during his lifetime; Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of London from 1929 to
#18 J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) [1] was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age . As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co. , he was the driving force beh
#19 Oliver Grau
Oliver Grau (born 24 October 1965) is a German art historian and media theoretician with a focus on image science, modernity and media art as well as culture of the 19th century and Italian art of the Renaissance . Main Areas of Research are: Digital Art, Media Art History, immersion, digital humani
#20 Daisaku Ikeda
Daisaku Ikeda ( 池田 大作 , Ikeda Daisaku , born 2 January 1928) is a Japanese Buddhist philosopher, educator, author, and nuclear disarmament advocate. [2] [3] [4] He served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai , the largest of Japan's new religious movements . [5] :
Our Lady of Charity , also known as Our Lady of El Cobre , Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre or "la Vírgen de la Caridad", is a popular Marian title of the Blessed Virgin Mary known in many Catholic countries . Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre Queen and Patroness of Cuban peoples The present ima
#2 Pittsburgh Law Enforcement Memorial
The Law Enforcement Officers Memorial of Allegheny County is a monument to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 's law enforcement community in honor of fallen officers of both the Pittsburgh Police and suburban departments. The original was dedicated in September 1996 near the Carnegie Science Center but
#3 Double eagle
A double eagle is a gold coin of the United States with a denomination of $20. [1] (Its gold content of 0.9675 troy oz (30.0926 grams) was worth $20 at the 1849 official price of $20.67/oz.) The coins are 34 mm x 2 mm and are made from a 90% gold (0.900 fine = 21.6 kt) and 10% copper alloy a
#4 Drinking fountains in Philadelphia
Public drinking fountains in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States, have been built and used since the 19th century. Various reform-minded organizations in the city supported public drinking fountains as street furniture for different but overlapping reasons. One was the general promotion of pu
#5 List of statues of Vladimir Lenin
This article is a list of current and former known monuments of Vladimir Lenin . Some or all of the monuments in former Soviet republics and satellites were removed after the fall of the Soviet Union, while Russia and aligned countries (mainly Belarus) retained the thousands of Lenin monuments that
#6 Grant's Tomb
Grant's Tomb , officially the General Grant National Memorial , is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant , 18th president of the United States , and his wife, Julia Grant . It is a classical domed mausoleum in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City . The struc
The Virginia War Memorial is a 1955 memorial in Richmond, Virginia, originally dedicated to Virginians killed in World War II and the Korean War . In 1980, the Shrine was enlarged to honor those Virginians killed in action in the Vietnam War . In 1996, the names of Virginians killed in action during
Brock's Monument is a 56-metre (185 ft) column atop Queenston Heights in Queenston , Ontario , Canada, dedicated to Major General Sir Isaac Brock , one of Canada's heroes of the War of 1812 . Brock, a British Army officer in charge of defending Upper Canada from a United States invasion, and one o
The Saint-Gaudens double eagle is a twenty- dollar gold coin , or double eagle , produced by the United States Mint from 1907 to 1933. The coin is named after its designer, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens , who designed the obverse and reverse . It is considered by many to be the most beautiful
#10 Capitoline Wolf, Timișoara
Capitoline Wolf is a statue located in Timișoara 's Victory Square , between the Metropolitan Cathedral and the Palace of Culture . Copy of the famous Capitoline Wolf , the statue was donated by the municipality of Rome in 1926 as a symbol of Latinity that unites the Romanian and Italian peoples. Th
#11 The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution
The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution is a sculpture located beside Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. , United States. [1] Dedicated in 1929, the sculpture was created by artist and socialite Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in honor of the four founders of the Daughters of the Ame
The Thiruvalluvar Statue , or the Valluvar Statue , is a 41-metre-tall (133 ft) stone sculpture of the Tamil poet and philosopher Valluvar , author of the Tirukkural , an ancient Tamil work on Dharma and morality . It is located on a small island near the town of Kanyakumari on the southernmost po
#13 Boyne Obelisk
The Boyne Obelisk , also known as King William's Obelisk , was an obelisk located in Oldbridge , near Drogheda , County Louth , Ireland. Boyne Obelisk The obelisk in 1890 Coordinates 53°43′31.4″N 6°25′.2″W Location Oldbridge , County Louth , Ireland Type Obelisk Material Granite Height 53 m (174
The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by GLAAD to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) community and the issues that affect their lives. [1] In addition to film and television, the Awa
#15 List of sculptures in Central Park
Since 1863, twenty-nine sculptures [note 1] have been erected within New York City 's 843-acre (3.41 km 2 ) Central Park . Most have been donated by individuals or organizations, few by the city itself. While many early statues are of authors and poets along "Literary Walk", and American figures l
#16 Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv
The Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was a sculpture monument to Vladimir Lenin , located in the Freedom Square , Kharkiv , Ukraine , that was toppled and demolished in 2014. It was the largest monument to Lenin in Ukraine, designed by Alexander Sidorenko after entering an open competition to design the m
The 1933 double eagle is a United States 20-dollar gold coin. Although 445,500 specimens of this Saint-Gaudens double eagle were minted in 1933, none were ever officially circulated, and all but two were ordered to be melted down. However, 20 more are known to have been rescued from melting by being
Spindle was a sculpture created in 1989 by artist Dustin Shuler (1948–2010). [1] It consisted of a 50-foot spike with eight cars impaled on it [2] in a manner reminiscent of documents on a desk spindle . Demolished sculpture in Illinois by Dustin Shuler Spindle Artist Dustin Shuler Year 1989 Type As