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Arthur Webster Emerson (December 5, 1885 – July 18, 1968) was a painter who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii . He was the son of Nathaniel Bright Emerson , and grandson of missionaries John S. Emerson and Ursula Newell Emerson . As a young Hawaiian-born artist, he was encouraged in his painting by Madge
#2 Hugo Riemann
Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann (18 July 1849 – 10 July 1919) was a German musicologist and composer who was among the founders of modern musicology. [1] The leading European music scholar of his time, [1] he was active and influential as both a music theorist and music historian . [2] Many of his
#3 Jessicka
Jessicka Addams (born Jessica Fodera on October 23, 1975) is an American singer and visual artist. Best known by her stage name Jessicka , she was the frontwoman of Florida-based band Jack Off Jill and current front for the Los Angeles-based band Scarling. American singer Jessicka Jessicka in 2004 B
#4 Johann Michael Bretschneider
Johann Michael Bretschneider (1680–1729) was a German painter. German painter Philosophers in study , 1700; National Museum of Wrocław Scholar in study , 1700; National Museum of Wrocław Picture Gallery , 1702, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
#5 Louisa Finch, Countess of Aylesford
Louisa Finch, Countess of Aylesford (née Thynne ; 25 March 1760 – 28 December 1832) was an English naturalist and botanical illustrator who made studies and paintings of the plants, algae, and fungi from the Warwickshire area. English painter The Right Honourable The Countess of Aylesford Louisa, Co
Hermann Hendrich (31 October 1854 in Heringen, Thuringia – 18 July 1931 in Schreiberhau in Niederschlesien ) was a German painter. German painter Hermann Hendrich Born ( 1854-10-31 ) 31 October 1854 Heringen Died 18 July 1931 (1931-07-18) (aged 76) Szklarska Poręba Known for Painting, illustrati
#7 Peter Anton
Peter Anton (born 1963 in New Haven , Connecticut ) is an American artist and sculptor . Anton is known for his sculptures around the theme of candy. [1] [2] [3] American artist and sculptor For the rugby player, see Peter Anton (rugby union) . Peter Anton Born 1963 New Haven , Connecticut Nationali
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
#9 Anna Chromý
Anna Chromy (18 July 1940 – 18 September 2021) was a painter and sculptor of Czech-German descent. At the end of World War II , Chromy's family was expelled from Bohemia to Vienna , Austria. Her family did not have enough money for her to attend art school however, so only after she married and move
#10 Emanuel Leutze
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868) was a German-American history painter best known for his 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware . He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting . German-American painter Emanuel Leutze Leutze in a photograph taken before 1868
#11 Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Many of his works were made in collab
#12 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
#13 Lorraine O'Grady
Lorraine O'Grady (born September 21, 1934) is an American artist, writer, translator, and critic. Working in conceptual art and performance art that integrates photo and video installation , she explores the cultural construction of identity – particularly that of Black female subjectivity – as shap
#14 Pietro Sassi
Pietro Sassi (18 July 1834 – 30 December 1905) was an Italian painter. Italian painter (1834–1905) He was born in Alessandria and resident in Rome , where he painted genre and both urban and rural vedute paintings. Le Sponde del Lago di Garda in Tirolo were exhibited at the 1880 Exhibition of Fine A
#15 Frederick Ferdinand Schafer
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer (August 16, 1839 - July 18, 1927) was a German-born American painter. He was born in Braunschweig , Germany and he emigrated to the United States in 1876, at age 37. [1] [2] He opened a studio on Montgomery Street in San Francisco, and he lived in Oakland , [3] Over the c
Janet Payne Bowles (June 29, 1872 or 1873 – July 18, 1948) was an American art educator, metalsmith, and jewelry designer from Indianapolis , Indiana , who is best known for creating intricate Arts-and-Crafts-style jewelry, flatware , and other small objects. Although the self-taught artisan had lit
Christian Carl Magnussen (31 August 1821, Bredstedt - 18 July 1896, Schleswig ) was a German painter; primarily of genre scenes. German painter (1821-1896) Christian Carl Magnussen; portrait by Lorenz Frølich (1853)
#18 Evert van Muyden
Evert Louis van Muyden (18 July 1853 Albano , Lazio – 27 February 1922 Orsay ) was a noted engraver, illustrator and painter, born to Swiss parents. His brothers, Albert-Steven van Muyden (1849-1910) and Henri van Muyden (1860-1936) were also artists. Self-portrait
#19 Tommaso Bona
Tommaso Bona (second half 16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, mainly active in Brescia . Italian painter Altarpiece by Tommaso Bona with Virgin and Saint Christopher and Saint Peter in the Santa Maria Annunziata church in Salò . He painted a Magdalen for the church of the
John Faulkner (September 24, 1901 – March 28, 1963) was an American writer. His works, in a plain style, depict life in Mississippi . Faulkner is best-remembered for the novels Men Working ( 1941 ) and Dollar Cotton ( 1942 ), and the memoir , My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Reminiscence ( 1963 ), a
#1 Museum of modern art André Malraux - MuMa
The Musée d'art moderne André Malraux (also known as Musée Malraux and simply MuMa ) is a museum in Le Havre , France containing one of the nation's most extensive collections of impressionist paintings. [1] [2] It was designed by Atelier LWD , an architecture studio led by Guy Lagneau , Michel Weil
The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum , in St. Johnsbury, Vermont , is a combined library and art gallery. The building in which it is housed is architecturally and historically significant because of its construction. The Athenaeum is also noted for the American landscape paintings and books in its collectio
The Haus der Kunst ( German: [ˈhaʊs deːɐ̯ ˈkʊnst] , House of Art ) is a non-collecting modern and contemporary art museum in Munich , Germany . It is located at Prinzregentenstraße 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten , Munich's largest park. Art museum in Munich, Germany This article may
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
The Indianapolis Museum of Art ( IMA ) is an encyclopedic art museum located at Newfields , a 152-acre (62 ha) campus that also houses Lilly House , The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres , the Gardens at Newfields, the Beer Garden, and more. It is located at the corner of North Mi
The Chichu Art Museum ( 地中美術館 , Chichū Bijutsukan ) (literally 'art museum in the earth') is a museum built directly into a southern portion of the island of Naoshima in Kagawa Prefecture , Japan . It was designed by architect Tadao Ando and opened to the public on July 18, 2004. Japanese art museum
#7 Tate Modern
Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art , and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain , Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives . [2] It is located in the former Bankside Power Station ,
The Meštrović Pavilion ( Croatian : Meštrovićev paviljon ), also known as the Home of Croatian Artists ( Croatian : Dom hrvatskih likovnih umjetnika ) and colloquially as the Mosque ( Croatian : Džamija ), is a cultural venue and the official seat of the Croatian Society of Fine Artists (HDLU) locat
The Pinacothèque de Paris ( French: [pinakɔtɛk də paʁi] ) was an art gallery in Paris , France , with exhibition space for temporary exhibitions of artworks. [1] It was owned and run by Modigliani enthusiast Marc Restellini . [2] It closed in 15 February 2016 after going into receivership in Novem
The Maine State Building is a historic building on Preservation Way, part of the Poland Springs resort complex in South Poland, Maine . It was built in 1893 at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago . Designed by Chicago architect Charles Sumner Frost , a Lewiston, Maine native and MIT graduate, the bu
Tsaritsyno ( Russian : Царицыно , IPA: [tsɐˈrʲitsɨnə] , literal meaning " Tsaritsa 's property") is a palace museum and park reserve in the south of Moscow . For other uses, see Tsaritsyno (disambiguation) . Tsaritsyno Царицыно Location within Moscow Established 1775 It was founded in the 1775 as
#12 Oriel Ynys Môn
Oriel Môn is a museum and arts centre located in Llangefni , Anglesey (Ynys Môn) , Wales . Local museum in Llangefni, Wales Oriel Môn A two-part centre, the History Gallery provides an insight into the island's culture, history and environment. The Art Gallery has a changing programme of exhibitions
The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler with its museum in Riehen , near Basel ( Switzerland ), owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler , which features modern and traditional art. The Beyeler Foundation museum includes a space for special exhibitions staged to complement
#14 Centre for Contemporary Photography
The Centre for Contemporary Photography ( CCP ), in Fitzroy , Melbourne , Victoria , is a venue for the exhibition of contemporary photo-based arts, providing a context for the enjoyment, education, understanding and appraisal of contemporary practice. Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) Forme
The Detroit Institute of Arts ( DIA ), located in Midtown Detroit , Michigan , has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers 658,000 square feet (61,100 m 2 ) [2] [3] with a major renovation and expansion project completed in 2
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
#17 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
The Singapore Art Museum ( Abbreviation : SAM) is an art museum is located in the Downtown Core district of Singapore . It is the first fully dedicated contemporary visual arts museum in Singapore with one of the world’s most important public collections by local, Southeast and East Asian artists. I
#19 Museum of Modern Art Australia
The Museum of Modern Art Australia ( MOMAA ), alternatively named the 'Museum of Modern Art of Australia,' or, according to McCulloch , the 'Museum of Modern Art and Design' (MOMAD), [1] was founded by Australian art patron John Reed in 1958 in Tavistock Place, a lane-way off 376 Flinders Street , M
#20 Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai
The Musée de la Chartreuse is an art museum in a former Carthusian monastery in Douai , France . It is the 'musée des Beaux-Arts' for the city. Museum in Douai, France The Musée de la Chartreuse
L'Oiseau bleu (also known as The Blue Bird and Der Blaue Vogel ) is a large oil painting created in 1912–1913 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956); considered by Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon as a founder of Cubism , along with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso . L'Oi
#2 The Fourth Estate (painting)
The Fourth Estate ( Italian : Il quarto stato ) is an oil painting by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo , originally titled The Path of Workers and made between 1898 and 1901. [2] It depicts a moment during a labor strike when workers' representatives calmly and confidently stride out of a crowd to negot
Paintings on masonite is a series of 27 abstract paintings made by Joan Miró using the type of proprietary hardboard known as masonite , just after the Spanish Civil War started on 18 July 1936. These works break with his earlier phase which was known as his wild paintings period. This was a label e
Lime Green Icicle Tower is a 2011 glass and steel sculpture by American artist Dale Chihuly . Housed in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, Massachusetts, it has been on display in the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard since the 2011 exhibit "Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass". The scu
#5 Statue of Nelson Mandela, Cape Town City Hall
A Statue of Nelson Mandela was unveiled on 24 July 2018. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] It was placed on the balcony of Cape Town City Hall overlooking the Grand Parade , Cape Town , South Africa. [6] Nelson Mandela was the first post-apartheid president of South Africa and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 19
Forever Marilyn is a giant statue of Marilyn Monroe designed by Seward Johnson . The statue is a representation of one of the most famous images of Monroe, taken from Billy Wilder 's 1955 film The Seven Year Itch . Created in 2011, the statue has been displayed in a variety of locations in the Unite
The Weeping Woman (French: La Femme qui pleure [1] ) is a series of oil on canvas [2] paintings by Pablo Picasso , the last of which was created in late 1937. The paintings depict Dora Maar , Picasso's mistress and muse. The Weeping Woman paintings were produced by Picasso in response to the bombing
Right and Left is a 1909 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Winslow Homer . It depicts a pair of common goldeneye ducks at the moment they are hit by a hunter's shotgun blast as they attempt to take flight. Completed less than two years before his death, it was Homer's last great painting
#9 Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger
Robert Dundas of Arniston , the younger, FRSE (18 July 1713 – 13 December 1787) was a Scottish judge. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1742 to 1746, as Lord Advocate from 1754 to 1760, and as Member of Parliament for Midlothian from 1754 to 1761. He was Lord President of the Court of
A Boy Bringing Bread (c. 1663) is an oil -on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch . It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of The Wallace Collection . A Boy Bringing Bread Artist Pieter de Hooch Year 1663 ( 1663 ) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 74.5 cm × 60
#11 History of San Francisco (Refregier murals)
In 1941, Anton Refregier won the $26,000 commission for the series History of San Francisco , which are a set of 27 murals painted in the lobby of the Rincon Annex Post Office in San Francisco , California. Refregier painted the mural with casein tempera on white gesso over plaster walls, in the soc
#12 List of works by Albert Gleizes
This is a list of works by the French artist, theoretician, philosopher Albert Gleizes ; one of the founders of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. [1] [2] [3] [4] Albert Gleizes, circa 1912 The artistic career of Gleizes spanned more than fifty years, from roughly 1901 to the year of hi
#13 Bambuco Bridge
The Bambuco Bridge was a temporary outdoor sculpture in the form of a simple suspension bridge spanning the River Tyne , England , made entirely from bamboo wood . [1] The public art was designed and built for the SummerTyne festival, part of the NewcastleGateshead initiative. Bambuco Bridge Artist
#14 Martyrdom of Saint Denis of the Nativity
The Martyrdom of Saint Denis of the Nativity is the subject of a 1926 painting by Adrien-Gabriel Voisard-Margerie (1867-1954). It hangs in the church of St Catherine in Honfleur , Normandy . It is not known whether the painting was commissioned by the church or offered as a gift by the painter. [1]
Guernica ( Spanish: [ɡeɾˈnika] ; Basque: [ɡernika] ) is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso . [1] [2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. [3] Guernica is exhibited in the Museo Reina S
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
#2 Max Emden
Max James Emden (28 October 1874 in Hamburg – 26 June 1940 in Muralto , Switzerland) was a German chemist, wholesale merchant, art collector and from 1926 owner of the Brissago Islands on Lake Maggiore . [1] [2] Some of Emden's properties, including valuable paintings, have been the object of Nazi-e
#3 Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón
Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón (1891–1971) was a Spanish art historian , who from 1960 to 1968 was Director of the Museo del Prado . [1] Spanish art historian In this Spanish name , the first or paternal surname is Sánchez and the second or maternal family name is Cantón . Excelentísimo Señor Don F
José María de Azcárate y Ristori (1919–2001) was a Spanish art historian, author, researcher, curator, and professor, specializing in medieval Castilian art and Renaissance sculpture. José María de Azcárate Born José María de Azcárate y Ristori ( 1919-04-18 ) 18 April 1919 Vigo, Spain Died 18 July 2
Mary Macdonald (September 10, 1984 – July 18, 2017) was a Canadian artist and independent curator based in St. John’s ( Newfoundland and Labrador ), who left a lasting impact on the arts and cultural community of Atlantic Canada , and advocated for the promotion of emerging artists and cultural work
Robert Esmond George (20 April 1888 – 1959) was an Australian theatre actor and director, but mostly remembered as a watercolor artist and art critic. His wife, professionally known as Elizabeth George, was a well-known journalist.
#7 Fritz Hirsch
Fritz Hirsch (21 April 1871 – 18 July 1938) was a German art historian, architect, and pioneer of state-sponsored historical preservation . German art historian This article needs additional citations for verification . ( September 2020 ) Fritz Hirsch Hirsch and his family, 1910 Born ( 1871-04-21 )
Shifra Goldman (née Meyerowitz ; July 18, 1926 – September 11, 2011) was an American art historian , feminist , and activist . [1] She had a probing intellect and a sense of "brutal" honesty. [2] She also had an "encyclopedic" knowledge of art history and a passion for Chicana/o art. [3] American ar
André Chastel (15 November 1912, Paris – 18 July 1990, Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Italian Renaissance . French art historian He was a professor at the Collège de France , where he held the chair of art and civilisation of the Renaissance in Ita
#10 Helen Gardiner
Helen Elsie Elizabeth Gardiner [1] CM (née McMinn ) (July 18, 1938 – July 22, 2008) was a Canadian philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto , Ontario . Helen Gardiner Born ( 1938-07-18 ) July 18, 1938 Kirkland Lake , Ontario , Canada Died July 22, 2008 (2008-07-
#11 Karl Voll
Karl Voll (18 July 1867 in Würzburg - December 25, 1917 in Munich [1] ) was German art historian specialising in Dutch renaissance and baroque art. [2] German art historian
Leslie Anne Anderson is a Cuban-American [1] museum curator and art historian, notable for her scholarship and exhibitions of nineteenth-century European, American, and regional art. Cuban-American museum curator and art historian This article is an orphan , as no other articles link to it . Please
Diego Angulo Iñiguez (July 18, 1901 – October 5, 1986) was an art historian , a university professor, writer and Director of the Prado Museum in Madrid from 1968 to 1970. [1] Complementing his career as a curator an academic , he served as one of the founding members of the Art advisory council of t
#14 Maurice Bardèche
Maurice Bardèche (1 October 1907 – 30 July 1998) was a French art critic and journalist , better known as one of the leading exponents of neo-fascism in post– World War II Europe. Bardèche was also the brother-in-law of the collaborationist novelist, poet and journalist Robert Brasillach , executed
Michael Francis Gibson (18 July 1929 – 7 June 2017) was an American art critic, art historian, writer and independent scholar , who published regularly in the International Herald Tribune , 1969–2004 and occasionally in other publications in English (the New York Times , Art in America , Art News ),
#16 Louis Grodecki
Louis Grodecki (18 July 1910, Warsaw – 28 March 1982, Paris ) was a French art historian. A disciple of Henri Focillon since 1929, shortly after his arrival in France, and naturalized French in 1935, he met art historian Erwin Panofsky in 1949 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . Grode
Matthew Pilkington (1701–1774), Church of Ireland priest, writer, and art historian, was the author of a standard text on painters that became known as Pilkington's Dictionary . His first wife was the poet and memoirist Laetitia Pilkington and their second son was the singer and writer John Carteret
#18 Lucien Golvin
Lucien Camille Golvin (18 July 1905 at Villebougis (Yonne) – 6 of July, 2002) was a noted French university professor who specialized in the study of art from the peoples of the Maghreb . This article does not cite any sources . ( November 2013 )
The Robert Allerton Park is a 1,517-acre (614 ha) park , nature center, and conference center located in the rural Piatt County township of Willow Branch , [2] (T 18 N, R 5 E) near Monticello, Illinois , on the upper Sangamon River . The park and manor house, The Farms , are attributed to owner Ro
#2 Jane Austen
Jane Austen ( / ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n , ˈ ɔː s -/ ; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on
#3 Equestrian statue of Francisco Franco
The equestrian statue of Francisco Franco was an instance of public art in Madrid , Spain. The statue, depicting dictator Francisco Franco riding a horse, was removed from its location in Nuevos Ministerios and subsequently stored in March 2005. Removed instance of public art Statue of Francisco Fra
#4 List of tallest statues in the Philippines
This list of tallest statues in the Philippines includes free-standing, completed statues in the Philippines that are at least 5 meters (16 feet) tall. The height of these statues are measured from the top of its base/pedestal up to its maximum height (including monuments with spires or obelisks). T
#5 The Cenotaph
The Cenotaph is a war memorial on Whitehall in London, England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens , it was unveiled in 1920 as the United Kingdom's national memorial to the British and Commonwealth dead of the First World War , was rededicated in 1946 to include those of the Second World War , and has s
The Second Division Memorial is located in President's Park , between 17th Street Northwest and Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC , United States . Detail Second Division Memorial Second Division Memorial Location President's Park Washington, D.C. United States Coordinates 38°53′33″N 77°02′17″W
The Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment is a bronze relief sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens opposite 24 Beacon Street, Boston (at the edge of the Boston Common ). It depicts Colonel Robert Gould Shaw leading members of the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Voluntee
The Guardian Building is a landmark skyscraper in the United States, located at 500 Griswold Street in Downtown Detroit , Michigan , within the Financial District . The Guardian is a class-A office building owned by Wayne County, Michigan and serves as its headquarters. Built in 1928 and finished in
#9 Monument to the Mersey Tunnel
The Monument to the Mersey Tunnel stands in Chester Street, Birkenhead , Wirral , Merseyside , England, near the western entrance to the Queensway Tunnel , one of the two Mersey Tunnels carrying roads under the River Mersey between Liverpool and the Wirral. It consists of shaft with a light on the t
A bust of Vasil Levski is installed outside the Embassy of Bulgaria (1621 22nd Street NW), near Sheridan Circle , in Embassy Row , Washington, D.C. , United States. Sculpture in Washington, D.C., U.S. Bust of Vasil Levski The bust in front of the Embassy of Bulgaria in Washington, D.C. Type Sculptur
#11 Statue of Edward Cornwallis
The Statue of Edward Cornwallis was a bronze sculpture of the military/political figure Edward Cornwallis atop a large granite pedestal with plaques. It had been erected in 1931 in an urban square in the south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia , opposite the Canadian National Railway station. Cornwallis w
#12 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
#13 Royal Naval Division War Memorial
The Royal Naval Division Memorial is a First World War memorial located on Horse Guards Parade in central London , and dedicated to members of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division (RND) killed in that conflict. Sir Edwin Lutyens designed the memorial, which was unveiled on 25 April 1925—ten years to th
#14 List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests
During the civil unrest [1] that followed the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, a number of monuments and memorials associated with racial injustice were vandalized, destroyed or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced. This occurred mainly in the United States , but also in several
Shemanski Fountain , also known as Rebecca at the Well , is an outdoor fountain with a bronze sculpture , located in the South Park Blocks of downtown Portland , Oregon, in the United States. [1] The sandstone fountain was designed in 1925, completed in 1926, and named after Joseph Shemanski , a Pol
#16 Statue of Edward VII, Bootle
The Statue of Edward VII stands in Kings's Gardens, Stanley Road, Bootle , Sefton , Merseyside , England. It was erected to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward VII and consists of a bronze statue of Edward VII on a granite pedestal . The sculptor was George Wade . The statue was given to the b
#17 Equestrian statue of William the Conqueror
The statue of William the Conqueror is located in his birthplace, Falaise, Calvados , about 30 kilometres (19 miles) southeast of Caen , France . [1] It depicts William the Conqueror , Duke of Normandy and King of England , on a horse, and is surrounded by statues of his six ducal predecessors. It i
The Wayne County Building is a monumental government structure located at 600 Randolph Street in Downtown Detroit , Michigan . It formerly contained the Wayne County administrative offices – now located in the Guardian Building at 500 Griswold Street – and its courthouse . As Wayne County Courthouse
#19 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
#20 Angel of Victory (Valdepeñas)
The Angel of Victory and Peace ( Spanish : Ángel de la Victoria y de la Paz ) or Angel of Victory , also referred to by some as Ángel del Fascismo ("Angel of Fascism"), [1] is a ruined monument in Valdepeñas , Spain. It was a Francoist memorial designed by Juan de Ávalos that consisted of a colossal