langs: 8 июля [ru] / july 8 [en] / 8. juli [de] / 8 juillet [fr] / 8 luglio [it] / 8 de julio [es]
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Hélène Marie Antigna (8 July 1837 – 10 March 1918) was a French painter. French painter Hélène Marie Antigna Born 8 July 1837 Melun Died 10 March 1918 ( 1918-03-11 ) (aged 80) Nationality France Education Jean Pierre Antigna and Eugène Delacroix Occupation painter Hélène-Marie Pettit [1] was bor
#2 Ernst Herter
Ernst Gustav Herter (14 May 1846, Berlin – 19 December 1917, Berlin) was a German sculptor. He specialized in creating statues of mythological figures. German sculptor This article needs additional citations for verification . ( September 2021 ) Ernst Herter and his wife Elisabeth, about 1885
Janet Braun-Reinitz is a muralist, painter and activist committed to social justice. Her ongoing involvement in civil rights activism began in 1961 when she was a Freedom Rider . During one incident in Little Rock, Arkansas , she was arrested and was jailed from July 8 to 15. She subsequently worked
Hans Olaf Halvor Heyerdahl (8 July 1857 – 10 October 1913) was a Norwegian Realist painter. His work was characterized by naturalism and focused largely on portraits and landscape paintings. [1] [2] Self-portrait (1892)
#5 Donald C. Thompson (photographer)
Donald C. Thompson (1885–1947) was a war photographer, cinematographer, producer and director known primarily for his still and motion picture work during World War I . [1] Thompson repeatedly risked his life to capture the war on film, and then would return to the United States to share his experie
Piotr Petrovich Litvinsky ( Russian : Пё́тр Петро́вич Литви́нский ; November 7, 1927, Leningrad, USSR, – July 8, 2009, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and art teacher, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation , who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningr
John Stephen Skelton MBE FRBS (8 July 1923 – 26 November 1999) [1] was a British letter-cutter and sculptor. [2] St Augustine's Church, Bexhill-on-Sea Janus Head (1997), Grange Gardens, Lewes Skelton was a nephew of Eric Gill [3] and was first apprenticed to his uncle, shortly before Gill's death. H
Benedetto Bonfigli (c. 1420 – July 8, 1496) was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Perugia , and part of the Umbria school of painters including Raphael and Perugino . [1] He is also known as Buonfiglio . Influenced by the style of Domenico Veneziano , Benozzo Gozzoli , and
#9 Iphigénie Decaux-Milet-Moreau
Iphigénie Decaux or Vicomtesse Iphigenie Decaux, née Milet-Moreau (17 June 1778 – 8 July 1862) was a French flower painter. 19th-century French painter Iphigénie Decaux-Milet-Moreau Born 17 June 1778 Toulon , France Died 8 July 1862 ( 1862-07-09 ) (aged 84) Paris , France Flowers in a vase Dec
#10 Finn Hald
Finn Hald (8 July 1929 – 17 October 2010) was a Norwegian ceramist , sculptor, illustrator, poet and playwright. He was married to Dagny Revold . Among his books are Revestreker from 1970 and the short story collection Fuglesirkuset from 1978. He published Mellom to stoler from 1980, Sidespor from 1
#11 Ronald Bladen
Ronald Bladen (July 13, 1918 – February 3, 1988) was an American painter and sculptor. He is particularly known for his large-scale sculptures. [1] His artistic stance, was influenced by European Constructivism , American Hard-Edge Painting , and sculptors such as Isamu Noguchi and David Smith . [2]
Clarence Hudson White (April 8, 1871 – July 8, 1925) was an American photographer, teacher and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement. He grew up in small towns in Ohio, where his primary influences were his family and the social life of rural America. After visiting the World's Columbian
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
#14 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
#15 Pat Larter
Patricia Larter (1936–1996) was an Australian artist who worked across mail art , video, photography, performance and painting. She was "one of the leading figures in the movement known as 'international mail art'". [1] She is credited with coining the term "femail art" that was taken up by other ma
#16 Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz ( German pronunciation: [kɛːtə kɔlvɪt͡s] ; born as Schmidt ; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) [3] was a German artist who worked with painting , printmaking (including etching , lithography and woodcuts ) and sculpture . Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant Wa
#17 Michele Cassou
Michele Cassou (born 27 September 1942) is an American painter, teacher and author. American painter, teacher and author 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 in lis
#18 Rafael Cardenas
Rafael Cardenas (born 1971) is a Mexican-American photographer based in East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights . This article is an orphan , as no other articles link to it . Please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the Find link tool for suggestions. ( June 2021 ) Rafael Cardenas
#19 Fred Kruger
Fred Kruger (born Johan Friedrich Carl Kruger , 18 April 1831 – 15 February 1888) was a German-born photographer noted for his early photography [1] of landscape and indigenous peoples [2] in Victoria , Australia. Fred Kruger View of Mount Pleasant, as seen from School of Mines, Ballarat by Fred Kru
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
Manor House Museum , Ilkley , England , is a local heritage museum and art gallery , and was established in the present building in 1961 to preserve local archaeological artefacts after the spa town expanded and much Roman material was lost. It was managed by Bradford Council Museums and Galleries d
#2 McMichael Canadian Art Collection
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection ( MCAC ) is an art museum in Vaughan , Ontario , Canada. The museum is located on a 40 hectares (100 acres) property in Kleinburg , an unincorporated village in Vaughan. The property includes the museum's 7,900 square metres (85,000 sq ft) main building, a s
Lyme Art Association (LAA) is a non-profit art organization established in 1914, with roots going back to 1902. The organization maintains a historic art gallery located at 90 Lyme Street in the Old Lyme Historic District , Old Lyme, Connecticut . The gallery was built in 1922 to a design prepared b
#4 Firma y Odilo Estévez Municipal Decorative Art Museum
Firma y Odilo Estévez Municipal Decorative Art Museum (in Spanish, Museo de Arte Decorativo Firma y Odilo Estévez ) is the former home of the Estévez family in Rosario , Argentina , which was donated to the Municipality of Rosario and turned into a museum. The inner courtyard One of the rooms in the
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is a planned art museum , to be located in Saadiyat Island cultural district in Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates . Upon completion, it is planned to be the largest of the Guggenheim museums. Architect Frank Gehry designed the building. After announcing the museum project in
Castlemaine Art Museum is an Australian art gallery and museum in Castlemaine, Victoria in the Shire of Mount Alexander . It was founded in 1913. It is housed in a 1931 Art Deco building constructed for the purpose, heritage-listed by the National Trust. [1] Its collection concentrates on Australian
Château de Linardié is the name for a once active cultural center located in the South West area of France seven kilometres from Gaillac in the Tarn, France . It operated for 10 years, from 1996 to 2006. Château de Linardié
#8 Smack Mellon
Smack Mellon is a non-profit arts organization located at 92 Plymouth Street, in Dumbo, Brooklyn . Smack Mellon supports emerging, under-recognized mid-career, and women artists through a highly regarded exhibition program, competitive studio residency, and technical support to realize new and ambit
#9 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall , in Washington, D.C. , the United States . The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn . It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the
#10 Ernest L. Blumenschein House
The Ernest L. Blumenschein House is a historic house museum and art gallery at 222 Ledoux Street in Taos, New Mexico . It was a home of painter Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960), [3] a co-founder of the Taos Society of Artists and one of the "Taos Six". It was declared a National Historic Landmark
#11 Brera Academy
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the Accademia di Brera or Brera Academy , is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan , Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera , Milan's main public museu
#12 National Sporting Library & Museum
The National Sporting Library & Museum or NSLM (formerly the National Sporting Library ) is a research library and art museum in Middleburg, Virginia in the United States. [3] Art museum in Middleburg, VA National Sporting Library & Museum Former name National Sporting Library Established March 29
#13 Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro
The Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM) ( Portuguese : Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro ) is a museum located in northeastern Flamengo Park , in the city of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . [1] It is in the Centro district , west of Santos Dumont Airport , on Guanabara Bay . This article ma
#14 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
#15 Chitral Museum
Chitral Museum is a museum located in Chitral District , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan , established on 8 July 2010. [1] [2] Museum in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Chitral Museum Established 2010 ( 2010 ) Location Chitral District , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan Coordinates 35.8477°N 71.7837°E /
The Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy , dedicated to the art of calligraphy, [1] is situated in Sokolniki Park , Moscow . The museum collection features calligraphy masterpieces from 65 countries. The concept was elaborated by Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Centre and the National Union of Cal
The Hirschsprung Collection ( Danish : Den Hirschsprungske Samling) is an art museum located on Stockholmsgade in Copenhagen , Denmark . It is located in a parkland setting in Østre Anlæg , near the Danish National Gallery , and houses a large collection of Danish art from the 19th and early 20th ce
The Tokyo National Museum ( 東京国立博物館 , Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ) or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the Taitō ward of Tokyo , Japan . It is one of the four museums [lower-alpha 1] operated by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage ( ja:国立文化財機構 ), is considered the oldest national mus
#19 Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art
Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art ( Russian : Витебский Музей Современного Искусства ) was an art museum in Vitebsk , Belarus organized in 1918 by Marc Chagall , Kazimir Malevich and Alexander Romm . In 1921, it exhibited 120 paintings "representing all the movements of the contemporary art from the Acad
#20 Gropius House
The Gropius House is a historic house museum owned by Historic New England located at 68 Baker Bridge Road in Lincoln , Massachusetts , United States . [4] It was the family residence of Modernist architect Walter Gropius , his wife Ise Gropius (née Frank), and their daughter Ati Gropius . The house
#1 List of works by Diego Velázquez
This is a list of paintings and drawings by the 17th-century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez . Velázquez is estimated to have produced between only 110 and 120 known canvases. [1] Among these paintings, however, are many widely known and influential works. All paintings are in oil on canvas unless no
#2 Conversion on the Way to Damascus
The Conversion on the Way to Damascus ( Conversione di San Paolo ) is a work by Caravaggio , painted in 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo , in Rome . Across the chapel is a second Caravaggio depicting the Crucifixion of Saint Peter . On the altar between the two is t
Three Heads Six Arms ( Chinese : 三頭六臂 ; pinyin : Sān tóu liù bì ) is a sculpture by Chinese artist Zhang Huan . The work, composed of copper and steel, is 27 feet (8.2 m) tall and weighs 15 short tons (14 t) . [1] [2] [3] From May 2010 to February 2011, the sculpture was installed at the Jos
#4 The Welsh at Mametz Wood (painting)
The Welsh at Mametz Wood by Christopher Williams portrays the 11 July 1916 Charge of the Welsh Division at Mametz Wood , part of the Somme offensive. Painted at the request of the Secretary of State for War, David Lloyd George . Williams visited the scene in November 1916 and later made studies from
Our Lady of Kazan , also called Mother-of-God of Kazan ( Russian : Казанская Богоматерь , romanized : Kazanskaya Bogomater' ), is a holy icon of the highest stature within the Russian Orthodox Church , representing the Virgin Mary as the protector and patroness of the city of Kazan , and a palladi
The Lorelei Fountain , also known as the Heinrich Heine Memorial , is a monument located on East 161st Street in the Concourse section of the Bronx , New York City , near the Bronx County Courthouse . It was designed by German sculptor Ernst Herter and created in 1896 out of Italian white marble in
The Croatian Apoxyomenos ( Croatian : Hrvatski Apoksiomen ) is an Ancient Greek statue cast in bronze in the 2nd or 1st century BC; it was discovered in 1996 on the bottom of the sea near the Croatian islet of Vele Orjule , southeast of the island of Lošinj . It represents an athlete – Apoxyomenos (
#8 Assumption of the Virgin (Cerasi Chapel)
The Assumption of the Virgin ( Italian : L'Assunzione della Vergine ) by Annibale Carracci is the altarpiece of the famous Cerasi Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome . The large panel painting was created in 1600–1601. [1] The artwork is somewhat overshadowed by the two more famou
The Surprise ( La Surprise ) is an oil on panel painting by the French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau , created c. 1718, now held in the J. Paul Getty Museum , in Los Angeles . The painting depicts showing a male guitarist, dressed as Mezzetino , watching an embracing couple embrace, with a small dog
#10 Wedding dress of Princess Mary of Teck
The wedding dress of Princess Mary of Teck is the gown worn by the future Queen Mary at her wedding to Prince George, Duke of York ( King George V from 1910 to 1936) on 6 July 1893 at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace , in London. The dress now belongs to the British Royal Collection and is part
#11 Colin Lauder
Colin Lauder (c. 1750 – 25 October 1831), Worlds End Close, Edinburgh ) was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh FRCSEd, and a burgess of Edinburgh . His portrait was painted by Sir Henry Raeburn . This article includes a list of general references , but it lacks sufficient corresp
#12 The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title [lower-alpha 1] given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch , between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. [1] It has been housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid ,
Saint Roch Giving Alms is an oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carraci , commissioned between 1587 and 1588 by the Confraternity of San Rocco in Reggio Emilia , a body for whom he produced several works. His largest work on panel or canvas (as opposed to fresco), it is the crowning achievement of h
#14 Parade de cirque
Parade de cirque (English: Circus Sideshow ) is an 1887-88 Neo-Impressionist painting by Georges Seurat . It was first exhibited at the 1888 Salon de la Société des Artistes Indépendants (titled Parade de cirque , cat. no. 614) in Paris, where it became one of Seurat's least admired works. Parade de
Saint Praxedis is an oil painting attributed to Johannes Vermeer . This attribution has often been questioned. [1] [2] [3] However, in 2014 the auction house Christie's announced the results of new investigations which in their opinion demonstrate conclusively that it is a Vermeer. [4] The painting
#16 Bill Papas's mural of Portland, Oregon
Bill Papas's mural of Portland, Oregon depicts more than 50 prominent residents of the city during the 1990s. The watercolor painting was displayed at a restaurant in the Hilton Portland Hotel from 1995 to 2014. It was donated to the Oregon Historical Society when the hotel and restaurant were redes
#17 Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Caravaggio)
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Italian: Crocifissione di san Pietro ) is a work by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , painted in 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome . Across the chapel is a second Caravaggio work depicting the Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damasc
#18 Black Lives Matter street mural (Salt Lake City)
In August 2020, eight artists painted a Black Lives Matter street mural in Salt Lake City 's Washington Square Park , outside the Salt Lake City and County Building , in the U.S. state of Utah . The city had commissioned the painting with a contest "to support and memorialize the national movement t
Magistrate of Brussels is an unfinished oil painting or oil sketch by Anthony van Dyck , rediscovered in 2013 after being shown on episodes of the BBC television programme Antiques Roadshow . Magistrate of Brussels The restored painting Artist Anthony van Dyck Year Circa 1634 Medium Oil on canvas Ow
Annunciation of Ustyug ( Russian : Устюжское Благовещение ) is a Russian Annunciation icon , created in Novgorod in the 12th century, and one of the few icons which survived the Mongol invasion of Rus' . The Annunciation of Ustyug is currently held in the Tretyakov Gallery . [1] The origins of the i
Noël Desenfans (December 1741 – 8 July 1807) was a French-born art dealer mainly active in Britain, most notable for laying the foundation for the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London alongside the landscape painter Francis Bourgeois . [1] Noël Desenfans
#2 Paul Clemen
Paul Clemen (31 October 1866 – 8 July 1947) was a German art historian known in particular for his large inventory of monuments in the Rhineland area, many of which were destroyed or severely damaged in World War II . German art historian For other people of a similar name, see Paul Clemens . Paul C
Carrie Rebora Barratt is an American art historian specializing in museum administration and collaborative nonprofit leadership. [1] She has worked in this domain in New York City since the 1980s. Barratt was Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture (1989–2009), and Manager of the Henry R. Luce C
Giovanni Antonio Moschini or Giannantonio Moschini (June 28, 1773 - July 8, 1840) was an Italian author and Roman Catholic Somascan priest. He was an art critic who wrote mainly about art and architecture in Venice and the Veneto . Giannantonio Moschini Born 28 June 1773 Venice , Republic of Venic
#5 Ronald Jones (interdisciplinarian)
Ronald Jones (July 8, 1952 – August 9, 2019) was an American artist , critic and educator who gained prominence in New York City during the mid-1980s. In the magazine Contemporary , Brandon Labelle wrote: "Working as an artist, writer, curator, professor, lecturer and critic over the last 20 years,
#6 Gustav Pauli
Theodor Gustav Pauli (usually Gustav Pauli ) (2 February 1866, Bremen – 8 July 1938, Munich) was a German art historian and museum director in Bremen and Hamburg . Portrait of Gustav Pauli by Max Slevogt .
Gauvin Alexander Bailey is an American-Canadian author and art historian . He is Professor and Alfred and Isabel Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen's University . American art historian Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 2017 Bailey is a correspondent étr
Sarah Cook is a Scotland-based Canadian scholar. She is well known as a historian and curator in the field of New Media art . Cook was a Research Fellow at the University of Sunderland , where she worked with the research institute CRUMB – Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss, that she co-fou
Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883–1933) was an American archaeologist, art historian, and medievalist. He was chair of Harvard University ’s art history department, and was the first American scholar of Romanesque architecture to achieve international recognition. [1] Porter disappeared in 1933. His most
#10 Peter Arrell Browne Widener II
Peter Arrell Browne Widener II (June 25, 1895 – April 20, 1948) was a prominent American racehorse owner and breeder . He inherited a fortune from his father, Joseph E. Widener , a founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (and younger son of the extremely wealthy busine
#11 Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé
Oskar Dieter Alex von Rosenberg-Redé, 3rd Baron von Rosenberg-Redé [2] [3] [4] (4 February 1922 – 8 July 2004), also known as Alexis, Baron de Redé , was a prominent French banker, aristocrat , aesthete , collector, [5] and socialite. In 2003, he was appointed a commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et d
#12 Cathérine Hug
Cathérine Hug (born 1976) is an art historian and curator.
#13 Hermann Goetz (art historian)
Hermann Goetz (17 July 1898 – 8 July 1976) was a German art historian and museum director , known for his scholarly contributions in the field of Indian art history. He was the Director of the Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery , and the Director of history of art at the Heidelberg University 's Südasi
William Innes Homer (November 8, 1929 – July 8, 2012) was an American academic, art historian, and author. Homer was an expert in the life and works of painter Thomas Eakins . [1] American art historian William Innes Homer (2010)
John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876) was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Considered both eccentric and influential, he delivered speeches and published essays, novels, poems, and short stories between the 1810s and 1870s in the United States and Great Britain, cham
#1 Gateway Arch
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri , United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch , [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible building . Some sources consider it the tallest human-ma
The Meriwether Monument is a pillar erected in 1916 at John C. Calhoun Park in North Augusta, South Carolina , to commemorate Thomas McKie Meriwether (December 4, 1852 – July 8, 1876), the only white man killed in the Hamburg massacre when white supremacist militias attacked African Americans in coo
#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
The Maitland Brown Memorial , also known as Explorers' Monument , is a monument located in Esplanade Park in Fremantle , Western Australia . [1] [2] Unveiled on 8 February 1913, [3] it is approximately 6 metres (20 ft) high, and consists of a head and shoulders statue of Maitland Brown sitting on
Three Harbors Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America serving three southeastern Wisconsin counties: Milwaukee County , Racine County , and Kenosha County . Its name and logo refer to the three major port cities of Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha (in those three counties of the same n
#6 Monument to Soviet Tank Crews
The Monument to Soviet Tank Crews (Czech: Památník sovětských tankistů ) was a World War II memorial located in Prague . [1] It is also known as the Pink Tank because it was controversially painted pink in 1991, first by installation artist David Černý and a second time by members of parliament in p
#7 Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine
The demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine started during the fall of the Soviet Union as continued struggle against totalitarianism and dominance of neighboring Moscow. During Euromaidan it has become a widespread phenomenon and dubbed by Ukrainians Leninopad (Ленінопад), a pun litera
#8 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
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C. , honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War . The two-acre (8,100 m 2 ) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or rema
Flair Across America is a bronze statue in Atlanta, Georgia by artist Richard MacDonald finished in 1996 before the 1996 Summer Olympics . It is located near the site of the former Georgia Dome in the Georgia World Congress Center complex. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general n
#11 Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian -born British artist Anish Kapoor , that is the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago , Illinois . The sculpture and AT&T Plaza are located on top of Park Grill , between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune
The St. Julien Memorial , also known as The Brooding Soldier , is a Canadian war memorial and small commemorative park located in the village of Saint-Julien, Langemark ( West Flemish : Sint-Juliaan ), Belgium . The memorial commemorates the Canadian First Division 's participation in the Second Bat
#13 Monuments and memorials in Canada removed in 2020–2022
A number of monuments and memorials in Canada were removed as a result of protests between 2020 and 2022. These included six sculptures of Sir John A. Macdonald , the first prime minister of Canada , three of other figures connected to the Canadian Indian residential school system ( Alexander Wood ,
#14 Spanish–American War Memorial (Arlington National Cemetery)
The Spanish–American War Memorial is a memorial in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia , in the United States that commemorates those American military personnel who died in the Spanish–American War . Constructed by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and dedi
#15 Boer War Memorial (Montreal)
The Boer War Memorial ( French : Monument aux héros de la guerre des Boers ) is a monument to the heroes of the Boer War . It is located at Dorchester Square in downtown Montreal , in Quebec , Canada. [1] This article relies largely or entirely on a single source . ( October 2009 ) Boer War Memorial
#16 Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
Since the 1960s, many municipalities in the United States have removed monuments and memorials on public property dedicated to the Confederate States of America (CSA; the Confederacy), and some, such as Silent Sam in North Carolina, have been torn down by protestors. Efforts to remove Confederate me
#17 Robert Burns Memorial (Montreal)
The Robert Burns Memorial ( French : Monument à Robert Burns ), created by sculptor George Anderson Lawson , is a monument located at Dorchester Square in Downtown Montreal . [1] Not to be confused with Robert Burns Memorial, Stanley Park . Robert Burns Memorial Monument à Robert Burns View from wes
#18 Vance Monument
The Vance Monument was a late 19th–century granite obelisk in Asheville, North Carolina that memorialized Zebulon Baird Vance , a former governor of North Carolina. [1] It was designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith . [2] The monument was removed by the City of Asheville in May 2021. [3] Monument
#19 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
#20 Robert E. Lee Monument (Charlottesville, Virginia)
The Robert E. Lee Monument was an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller located in Charlottesville, Virginia 's Market Street Park (formerly Emancipation Park, and before that Lee Park) in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse His