langs: 25 января [ru] / january 25 [en] / 25. januar [de] / 25 janvier [fr] / 25 gennaio [it] / 25 de enero [es]
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#1 Leon Aurdal
Leon Aurdal (23 January 1890 – 25 January 1949) was a Norwegian painter. Norwegian painter Leon Aurdal Born ( 1890-01-23 ) 23 January 1890 Bergen , Norway Died 25 January 1949 (1949-01-25) (aged 59) Nationality Norwegian Occupation Painter Spouse(s) Synnøve Anker Aurdal He was born in Bergen to Ba
Rosalie Gascoigne AM (25 January 1917 – 23 October 1999) was a New Zealand-born Australian sculptor and assemblage artist. She showed at the Venice Biennale in 1982, becoming the first female artist to represent Australia there. In 1994 she was awarded the Order of Australia for her services to th
Sigismondo Betti (January 25, 1700 in Florence – after 1783 in Florence) was an Italian painter. Italian painter Portrait of Rodolfo Brignole Sale (former Doge of Genoa ) by Sigismondo Betti Betti worked mostly in Genoa and in Liguria . He was a pupil of Antonio Puglieschi and a fresco painter Matte
#4 Frederika Henriëtte Broeksmit
Frederika Henriëtte Broeksmit (1875–1945) was a Dutch artist and peace activist . [1] [2] Dutch artist Frederika Henriëtte Broeksmit Born ( 1875-08-14 ) 14 August 1875 Charlois (Rotterdam), The Netherlands Died 25 January 1945 (1945-01-25) (aged 69) Bussum, The Netherlands Nationality Dutch Educat
Carlos Latuff (born 30 November 1968) is a Brazilian political cartoonist . [1] His work deals with themes such as anti-Western sentiment , anti-capitalism , and opposition to U.S. military intervention . He is best known for his images depicting the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the Arab Spring
Patrisse Marie Khan-Cullors Brignac [1] ( née Cullors-Brignac ; born June 20, 1983) is an American activist, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, artist and writer. Cullors created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 and has written and spoken widely about the movement. Other topics on w
#7 Karl Wolfe
Karl Wolfe (January 25, 1903 - November 19, 1984) [1] was an American portrait painter and stained glass , mosaic and terracotta artist from the state of Mississippi . He did over 1,000 paintings, including 800 portraits. American artist Karl Wolfe Born January 25, 1903 Brookhaven, Mississippi , U.S
Charles Fairfax Murray (30 September 1849 – 25 January 1919) was a British painter, dealer, collector, benefactor, and art historian who was connected with the second wave of the Pre-Raphaelites . English painter (1849–1919) Self-Portrait Murray's The Kings' Daughters , c. 1875 Titian 's Tarquin and
Fedele Fischetti (30 March 1732 – 25 January 1792) [1] was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period. He was born and died in Naples the capital of the Kingdom of Naples . Italian painter The Holy Family with saint Januarius and saint Anthony of Padua , Glasgow Museums.
#10 Proby Cautley
Sir Proby Thomas Cautley , KCB (3 January 1802 – 25 January 1871), English engineer and palaeontologist , born in Stratford St Mary , Suffolk , [1] is best known for conceiving and supervising the construction of the Ganges canal during East India Company rule in India . The canal stretches some 350
Lucas Cranach the Younger ( German : Lucas Cranach der Jüngere [ˈluːkas ˈkʁaːnax deːɐ̯ ˈjʏŋəʁə] ; October 4, 1515 – January 25, 1586) was a German Renaissance painter and portraitist, the son of Lucas Cranach the Elder and brother of Hans Cranach . German Renaissance artist (1515-1586) Christ and th
#12 Sonya Clark
Sonya Clark (born 1967, Washington, D.C.) is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history. [1] Her beaded headdress assemblages and braided wig series of the l
#13 Gray Foy
Gray Foy (1922–2012) was a mid twentieth-century American artist who created a visionary body of drawings from 1941 to 1975. His drawings are generally divided into two phases. First, from 1941–48, the artist drew figurative Surrealist landscapes and interiors. Then beginning in the late 1940s, he c
#14 Tania Mouraud
Tania Mouraud , [1] (born January 2, 1942, in Paris), is a contemporary French video artist , and photographer. French artist This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article is a
Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Melnychenko (born 25 February 1932, Kyiv ) — Ukrainian artist, sculptor, architect, Honored Artist of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, member of the All-Ukrainian Creative Union "Congress of Writers of Ukraine", honorary member of the National Uni
#16 Roxy Paine
Roxy Paine (born 1966, [1] New York City ) is an American painter and sculptor widely known for his installations that often convey elements of conflict between the natural world and the artificial plains man creates. He was educated at both the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art an
#17 Denis Rivière
Denis Rivière (1945 – 25 January 2020) was a French painter. [1] French painter (1945–2020) Denis Rivière Denis Rivière in 1995 Born 1945 Honfleur , France Died 25 January 2020 (aged 75) Nationality French Occupation Painter
Clemens von Zimmermann (8 November 1788 – 25 January 1869) was a German historical painter . He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting . German painter This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German . (October 2019) Click [show] for important
#19 Marius Bauer
Marius Alexander Jacques Bauer (25 January 1867 – 18 July 1932) was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, best known for his Oriental scenes. His style was largely Impressionistic , although it also derived to some extent from the Hague School . Many of his works were based on photographs he bou
#20 Don Voisine
Don Voisine (born 1952 in Fort Kent, Maine ) is an American abstract painter living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn , New York, USA. In the fall of 2016, "X/V," a 15 year survey of his work, was organized by the Center for Maine Contemporary Art , Rockland, ME. In 1997 he was elected a
The Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization directly serving greater Orlando, Orange County and Central Florida. The museum was founded in 1924 by a group of art enthusiasts. The museum's mission is to inspire creativity, passion and intellectual curiosity by connectin
The Princes Czartoryski Museum ( Polish : Muzeum Książąt Czartoryskich [muˈzɛum ˈkɕɔ̃ʐɔnt tʂartɔˈrɨskʲix] ) – often abbreviated to Czartoryski Museum – is a historic museum in Kraków , Poland , and one of the country's oldest museums. The initial collection was formed in 1796 in Puławy by Princess I
The National Museum of Serbia ( Serbian : Народни музеј Србије / Narodni muzej Srbije ) is the largest and oldest museum in Belgrade , Serbia . It is located in the central zone of Belgrade on a square plot between the Republic Square , formerly Theatre Square, and three streets: Čika Ljubina, Vasin
#4 Second Bank of the United States
The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , it was chartered from February 1816 to January 1836. [1] The Bank's formal name, according to section 9 of its charter as passed by Congres
#5 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
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge . It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge . It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1745 – 1816), and comprises one of
Ronchini Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded by Lorenzo Ronchini in Umbria , Italy , in 1992. The gallery's first exhibition was a solo show of Italian Neo-Futurist artist Marco Lodola. Other artists exhibited at the gallery included Mario Schifano , Alighiero Boetti , Piero Gilardi , Paol
The Royal Castle in Warsaw ( Polish : Zamek Królewski w Warszawie ) is a royal residence that formerly served throughout the centuries as the official home of Polish monarchs . It is situated in Castle Square , at the entrance to the Warsaw Old Town . The personal offices of the king and the adminis
The Glasgow School of Art ( GSA ) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow , Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture , fine art , and design . Scottish fine art school This article needs to be updated . ( April
#10 Museum of the African Diaspora
The Museum of the African Diaspora ( MoAD ) is a contemporary art museum in San Francisco , California . MoAD holds exhibitions and presents artists exclusively of the African diaspora , one of only a few museums of its kind in the United States. Located at 685 Mission St. adjacent to the St. Regis
#11 Tate St Ives
Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives , Cornwall , England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden , in 1980. Modern art gallery in St Ives, Cornw
The National Palace Museum , [note 1] located in Taipei , Taiwan , has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest of its type in the world. The collection encompasses items spanning 8,000 years of Chinese history from the neolithic
#13 Lambiek
Galerie Lambiek is a Dutch comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam , founded on November 8, 1968 [2] by Kees Kousemaker ( Steenbergen [ nl ] , ( 1942-01-25 ) January 25, 1942 – Bussum , April 27, 2010 (2010-04-27) (aged 68) ), though since 2007, his son Boris Kousemaker is the current owne
#14 Glass House
The Glass House , or Johnson house , is a historic house museum on Ponus Ridge Road in New Canaan, Connecticut built in 1948–49. It was designed by architect Philip Johnson as his own residence. It has been called his "signature work". [3] Historic house in Connecticut, United States This article is
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art ( KNMA ) is a private modern and contemporary art museum with locations in New Delhi and Noida . [1] [2] Established in 2010, it is India's first private museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art. The core collection of the institution comprises post-independence
291 is the commonly known name for an internationally famous art gallery that was located in Midtown Manhattan at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York City from 1905 to 1917. Originally called the " Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession ", the gallery was established and managed by photographer Alfred Sti
The Muscarelle Museum of Art is a university museum affiliated with the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia . While the Museum only dates to 1983, the university art collection has been in existence since its first gift – a portrait of the physicist Robert Boyle – in 1732. Most early
Generator Sound Art is an experimental arts and culture organization based in New York City , co-owned by the sound artists Gen Ken Montgomery and Scott Konzelmann . [1] [2] It focuses upon the work of dedicated Sound Artists , [3] and is an umbrella organization that either facilitated or continues
Opened in 2003, the Nasher Sculpture Center is a museum in Dallas , Texas , that houses the Patsy and Raymond Nasher collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. It is located on a 2.4-acre (9,700 m 2 ) site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the Dallas Arts District . Museum in Dallas, U
#20 New Museum
The New Museum of Contemporary Art , founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker , is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery , on Manhattan 's Lower East Side . Museum in New York City "The New Museum" redirects here. For the museum in Sweden, see The New Museum (Sweden) . For the museum in Berlin, see Neues
#1 1798 in art
Events from the year 1798 in art . Overview of the events of 1798 in art Overview of the events of 1798 in art List of years in art ( table ) … 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 … Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Phi
#2 The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt
The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt is an oil painting on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens . It was commissioned in 1615 to decorate Schleißheim Palace , along with three other works depicting lion , wolf , and boar hunts. The cycle of paintings was looted from the palace during the Napoleonic Wars . Onl
#3 Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton PRS FRS FGS (2 January 1790 – 17 January 1851), known as Lord Compton from 1796 to 1812 and as Earl Compton from 1812 to 1828, was a British nobleman and patron of science and the arts. British nobleman and president of the Royal Society The
#4 Francis Burdett (1743–1794)
Francis Burdett (1743–1794) was a member of the Burdett family of Bramcote which had a lineage of baronetcy . He failed to inherit the hereditary baronetcy, as he died in 1794, before his father's death in 1797. He is the subject of two notable paintings. Francis Burdett by Joseph Wright of Derby ,
#5 Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque
Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque is an oil on canvas painting of the Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakesh by Winston Churchill . The painting, the only one Churchill undertook during the Second World War , was completed on 25/26 January 1943, during a visit to the city by Churchill and President Franklin D. R
#6 The Blue Boy
The Blue Boy (c. 1770) is a full-length portrait in oil by Thomas Gainsborough , owned by The Huntington in San Marino, California . [2] Painting by Thomas Gainsborough This article is about the Gainsborough painting. For other uses, see The Blue Boy (disambiguation) . The Blue Boy Artist Thomas Gai
The Girl in the Blue Bra is the name given to an image of an Egyptian woman who participated in the Tahrir Square protests in opposition to Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the military coup that ousted Hosni Mubarak during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution in opposition to Mubarak's p
#8 Cymon and Iphigenia (Leighton painting)
Cymon and Iphigenia is an oil on canvas painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton . The painting does not bear a date but was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts , London, in 1884. The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney , Australia, purchased it at a Christie's auction in Lond
The Girl Puzzle Monument honoring activist and journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, pen name Nellie Bly (1864-1922), is a public sculptural installation by American artist Amanda Matthews , CEO/Partner of Prometheus Art Bronze Foundry and Metal Fabrication. The installation is located on the northe
#10 Women of Algiers
Women of Algiers in their Apartment ( French : Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement ) is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by the French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix . This article is about the Delacroix painting. For the series of paintings and drawings by Pablo Picasso, see Les Femmes
Four Times of the Day is a series of four oil paintings by English artist William Hogarth . They were completed in 1736 and in 1738 were reproduced and published as a series of four engravings . They are humorous depictions of life in the streets of London, the vagaries of fashion, and the interacti
#12 The Lute Player (Caravaggio)
The Lute Player is a composition by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio . It used to exist in two versions, one in the Wildenstein Collection and another in the Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg . However, a third from Badminton House , Gloucestershire, came to light in 2007. Painting by Caravaggi
#13 Portrait of Mehmet II (Bellini)
The Portrait of Mehmet II is a painting by the Venetian artist Gentile Bellini , depicting the Ottoman sultan, Mehmet the Conqueror . It was painted in 1480 while Bellini was in Constantinople on a diplomatic mission. This painting is a record of the significant economic and diplomatic ties that exi
The Actor (French: L'acteur ) is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso , created from 1904 to 1905. [1] The painting dates from the artist's Rose Period . It is housed in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Painting by Pablo Picasso The Actor Artis
#15 Office at Night
Office at Night is a 1940 oil-on-canvas painting by the American realist painter Edward Hopper . It is owned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis , Minnesota , which purchased it in 1948. Painting by Edward Hopper Office at Night Artist Edward Hopper Year 1940 Medium oil paint , canvas Dimensio
#16 Man in a Hammock
L'Homme au hamac , also referred to as Man in a Hammock , is a painting created in 1913 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes . The work was exhibited at Moderni Umeni, SVU Mánes , Vystava, Prague, February – March 1914, no. 41; and Der Sturm , Berlin, July – August 1914. [1] The
#17 Van Gogh's family in his art
Van Gogh's family in his art refers to works that Vincent van Gogh made for or about Van Gogh family members. In 1881, Vincent drew a portrait of his grandfather, also named Vincent van Gogh, and his sister Wil . While living in Nuenen, Vincent memorialized his father in Still Life with Bible follow
Woman with Black Glove (French: Femme au gant noir , or Femme Assise ) is a painting by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes . Painted in 1920, after returning to Paris in the wake of World War I, the paintings highly abstract structure is consistent with style of experimentation th
#19 Equestrian statue of George Washington (Washington Circle)
Lieutenant General George Washington is an 1860 equestrian statue of George Washington , at Washington Circle , at the edge of the George Washington University ’s campus in Washington, D.C. [2] The statue was sculpted by Clark Mills . Statue by Clark Mills in Washington, D.C., U.S. For other uses, s
#1 Jurgis Baltrušaitis (art historian)
Jurgis Baltrušaitis (May 7, 1903 – January 25, 1988) was a Lithuanian art historian , art critic and a founder of comparative art research. He was the son of the poet and diplomat Jurgis Baltrušaitis . Most of his works were written in French , although he always stressed his Lithuanian origin. Afte
Ejner Bainkamp Johansson (7 March 1922 – 28 September 2001) was a Danish art historian, magister of art, writer, and documentary film director. He is also a 1998 N. L. Høyen Medal recipient. [1] Ejner Johansson Born Ejner Bainkamp Johansson ( 1922-03-07 ) 7 March 1922 Copenhagen , Denmark Died 28 Se
Phyllis Ackerman (1893–1977), [1] was an American art historian, interior designer and author. She was a scholar of Persian art and architecture and she worked alongside her husband Arthur Upham Pope . Her legacy was as an editor of the six volume publication, A Survey of Persian Art (1939). [2] Phy
#4 Marta Traba
Marta Traba Taín (Buenos Aires, 25 January 1930 – Madrid, 27 November 1983) was an art critic and writer known for her contributions to Latin American art and literature. [1] In this Spanish name , the first or paternal surname is Traba and the second or maternal family name is Taín . Marta Traba Bo
Léonce Rosenberg (12 September 1879 in Paris – 31 July 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was an art collector, writer, publisher, and one of the most influential French art dealers of the 20th century. His greatest impact was as a supporter and promoter of the cubists, especially during World War I and in
Volodymyr Sichynskyi (June 24, 1894 – June 25, 1962) was a Ukrainian émigré architect , graphic artist , and art historian . Orthodox Cathedral in Montreal Volodymyr Sichynskyi Volodymyr Sichynskyi was born to the family of Ievtym Sitsinskyi in Kamianets-Podilskyi , Podilia guberniya , Russia , whic
#7 Erhard Göpel
Erhard Göpel (born June 3, 1906 in Leipzig, † October 29, 1966 in Munich) was a German art historian and high level Nazi agent who acquired art, including looted art, for Hitler’s Führermuseum . [1] [2] Max Beckmann: Portrait of Erhard Göpel (1944), Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
#8 Lionel Cust
Sir Lionel Henry Cust KCVO FSA (25 January 1859 – 12 October 1929) was a British art historian, courtier and museum director. He was director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1895 to 1909 and co-edited The Burlington Magazine from 1909 to 1919. He was the father of Lionel George Archer Cust . B
Elmer Arthur Carmean Jr. (January 25, 1945 – October 12, 2019) was an American art historian and museum curator. [1] [2] American art historian and museum curator (1945–2019) E. A. Carmean, Jr. Born January 25, 1945 Springfield, Illinois , U.S. Died October 12, 2019 (2019-10-12) (aged 74) Washingt
#10 Sindika Dokolo
Sindika Dokolo (16 March 1972 – 29 October 2020) was a Congolese art collector and businessman. He owned one of the most important contemporary African art collections, which includes more than 3,000 pieces. [2] He died on 29 October 2020, in a free diving accident near Umm al-Hatab Island in Dubai
#11 Paulius Galaunė
Paulius Galaunė (January 25, 1890 in Pagelažiai near Ukmergė – October 18, 1988 in Kaunas ) was a Lithuanian art historian, museum curator, and graphic artist. He was one of the first professional museum curators in Lithuania and was well-published on topics of Lithuanian folk art. The apartment of
Paul Armand Silvestre (18 April 1837 – 19 February 1901) was a 19th-century French poet and conteur born in Paris. Paul Armand Silvestre Born 18 April 1837 Paris Died 19 February 1901 (1901-02-19) (aged 63) Toulouse Occupation Chorégrapher Poet Librettist Silvestre at the peak of his career. He st
#13 Stuart Morgan (art critic)
Stuart Morgan (25 January 1948 – 28 August 2002) was a Welsh art critic and editor. Morgan "became known during the 1980s in Europe and the United States as the most significant British writer on contemporary art." [1] He was an editor of Artscribe . He also published interviews with artists includi
Robert Rattray Tatlock (1889–1954) was a Scottish writer and art critic.
#15 Klára Marik
Klára Marik (18 March 1903 – 25 January 2005) was a Hungarian writer. She submitted some of her work into the "Epic works" category of the art competitions at the 1936 Summer Olympics , but did not win a medal. [1] At the time of her death, she was the oldest living Hungarian Olympian. [2] She gradu
#16 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] :
#17 Vincent Cronin
Vincent Archibald Patrick Cronin FRSL (24 May 1924 – 25 January 2011) was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer, best known for his biographies of Louis XIV , Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette , Catherine the Great , and Napoleon , as well as for his books on the Renaissance . British
The Hoberman Arch was the centerpiece of the Olympic Medals Plaza in downtown Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics . Following the Olympics the arch was moved to the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park where, along with the Olympic cauldron, it was one of the main highlights and an import
The Space Mirror Memorial , which forms part of the larger Astronauts Memorial , is a National Memorial on the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Merritt Island, Florida . It is maintained by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation (AMF), whose offices are located in the NASA
#3 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
#4 Robert Burns Memorial (Barre)
The Robert Burns Memorial is a granite monument located in downtown Barre, Vermont . It was erected by Barre's Scottish immigrants in 1899 to commemorate the centenary of the death of Scottish poet Robert Burns . This article includes a list of references , related reading or external links , but it
Fundadores de São Paulo (translation: Founders of São Paulo ) is a monument located in the Vila Mariana neighbourhood of São Paulo , Brazil. It was created by the Brazilian sculptor Luis Morrone [ pt ] to honour the city's founders, and after ten years of construction it was inaugurated on 25 Janu
Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture by the artist Louise Bourgeois . The sculpture, which depicts a spider , is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (927 x 891 x 1024 cm). [1] It includes a sac containing 32 marble eggs an
30th Street Station , officially William H. Gray III 30th Street Station , is a major intermodal transit station in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . It is metropolitan Philadelphia 's main railroad station and a major stop on Amtrak 's Northeast and Keystone corridors. Railway station in Philadelphia,
Leonardo's Horse (also known as the Sforza Horse or the Gran Cavallo ("Great Horse") ) is a project for a bronze sculpture that was commissioned from Leonardo da Vinci in 1482 by the Duke of Milan Ludovico il Moro , but never completed. It was intended to be the largest equestrian statue in the worl
#9 Statue of Robert Burns (Milwaukee)
The statue of Robert Burns (also known as the Burns Monument ) in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , is a work of public art by the Scottish artist William Grant Stevenson , RSA. The bronze statue, of the Scottish national poet Robert Burns , stands on a plinth of Nova Scotia pink granite with two bronze bas r
The Benavides Monument is a memorial in the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines built to commemorate the founder of the University of Santo Tomas, Miguel de Benavides , O.P. Located in front of the UST Main Building, the monument consists of a bronze statue of Benavides rising on top of
#11 La Conquistadora
La Conquistadora ( Our Lady of the Conquest or Our Lady the Conquerer [1] ) is a small wooden statue of the Madonna and Child now in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, New Mexico . [2] She was the first Madonna brought to what is now the United States. The statuette is carv
#12 Monument to Ramos de Azevedo
The Monument to Ramos de Azevedo is a sculptural set in bronze and granite located in the city of São Paulo . It was designed by Italian-born Brazilian sculptor Galileo Emendabili as a posthumous tribute to Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo , one of the most prominent names in architecture and urb
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo . David is a 5.17-metre (17 ft 0 in) [lower-alpha 1] marble statue of the Biblical figure David , a favoured subject in the art of Florence . [lower-alpha 2] Renaissance st
Frederik's Church ( Danish : Frederiks Kirke ), popularly known as The Marble Church ( Marmorkirken ) for its rococo architecture, is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Copenhagen , Denmark . The church forms the focal point of the Frederiksstaden district; it is located due west of Amalienborg Palac
#15 South African War Memorial, Cardiff
The South African War Memorial , also known as the Boer War Memorial , is a war memorial in Cardiff , Wales. It was erected in 1908 and unveiled by General Sir John French on 20 November 1909 to honour the victims of the Second Boer War . It is a Grade II* listed structure. [1] Grade II* listed war
#16 Peter I Monument in Taganrog
The Peter I Monument ( Russian : Памятник Петру I ), also known as the Peter the Great Monument (Памятник Петру Великому), is a monument to Peter I of Russia located in Taganrog , Russia . It is a bronze statue created by the sculptor Mark Antokolsky and first installed in 1903. Peter the Great Monu
#17 Monumento a los héroes de El Polvorín (mausoleum)
The Monumento a los heroes de El Polvorín (Monument to the "El Polvorín" fire heroes) is a mausoleum monument in Ponce, Puerto Rico , dedicated to the seven firefighters and one civilian who subdued the flames of the "El Polvorín" fire that took place on the night of 25 January 1899 in that city. Ma