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Jean-Claude Mocik , was born on February 9, 1958 in Livry Gargan . He is a filmmaker, video director, a director and teacher. Jean-Claude Mocik Jean-Claude Mocik in 2012, photo Sara Holt Born Jean-Claude Mocik ( 1958-02-09 ) 9 February 1958 Livry Gargan , France Nationality France Known for Dire
#2 Jan Matulka
Jan Matulka (7 November 1890 – 25 June 1972) was a Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia . Matulka's style ranged from Abstract expressionism to landscapes , sometimes in the same day. He has directly influenced artists like Dorothy Dehner , Francis Criss , Burgoyne Diller , I. Rice P
#3 Horst Faas
Horst Faas (28 April 1933 – 10 May 2012) was a German photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best known for his images of the Vietnam War . [1] Horst Faas Born ( 1933-04-28 ) 28 April 1933 Berlin, Nazi Germany Died 10 May 2012 (2012-05-10) (aged 79) Known for Photojournalis
Christina Quarles (born 1985) is a queer, mixed contemporary American artist and writer, living and working in Los Angeles, whose gestural, abstract paintings confront themes of racial and sexual identities, gender, and queerness. She grew up as an only child to a single mother and started drawing f
#5 Ajamu X
Ajamu X (born 1963 in Huddersfield ) is a British artist, curator, archivist and activist. He is best known for his fine art photography which explores same-sex desire, and the Black male body, and his work as an archivist and activist to document the lives and experiences of black LGBTQ people in t
William Mustart Lockhart (26 January 1855 – 3 January 1941) was a Scottish watercolour painter, born in Perth and later resident in Glasgow . [1] His middle name, taken from his mother's maiden name, is occasionally noted as Mustard. Not to be confused with William Ewart Lockhart . William Mustart L
#7 Babi Badalov
Babi Badalov (born 18 June 1959) is an Azerbaijani visual artist and poet . [2] Since 2011 he lives and works in Paris , France . [1] Azerbaijani visual artist and poet Babi Badalov Babi Badalov in 2019 Born ( 1959-05-18 ) 18 May 1959 (age 63) Lerik , Azerbaijan [1] Website www .babibadalov .com
#8 Cleo Hartwig
Cleo Hartwig (20 October 1907 – 18 June 1988) was an American sculptor who worked in stone, wood, terra cotta, plaster, paper, woodcut, and ceramic. She won a number of awards, including national awards, and her work is exhibited across the northeast U.S. This article includes a list of general refe
Robert Winthrop Chanler (February 22, 1872 – October 24, 1930) was an American artist and member of the Astor and Dudley–Winthrop families. [1] A designer and muralist , Chanler received much of his art training in France at the École des Beaux-Arts , and there his most famous work, titled Giraffes
#10 Oscar Castberg
Oscar Ambrosius Castberg (30 September 1846 – 18 June 1917) was a Norwegian painter and sculptor. [1] Norwegian painter and sculptor
#11 Joni Mitchell
Roberta Joan " Joni " Mitchell CC ( née Anderson ; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter. Drawing from folk , pop, rock, classical, and jazz , Mitchell's songs often reflect on social and philosophical ideals as well as her feelings about romance, womanhood, dis
#12 Simon Vouet
Simon Vouet ( French: [vwɛ] ; 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and mythological paintings, portraits, fres
#13 Susan Watkins
Susan Watkins (June 5, 1875 – June 18, 1913) [1] [2] was an American artist, known for painting in the styles of realism and impressionism . She studied under William Merritt Chase and Raphaël Collin . [3] Two of her pieces are on permanent display at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia
#14 Edward O'Brien (mural artist)
Edward O'Brien (1910-1975) was an American artist and muralist. American painter Edward O'Brien
#15 Raoul Hunter
Raoul Hunter (June 18, 1926 – December 10, 2018) [1] was a Canadian sculptor and caricaturist . Canadian 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 relies too much on
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
#17 Mario Puccini
Mario Puccini (28 June 1869, Livorno – 18 June 1920, Florence ) was an Italian Post-impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and village scenes. He was sometimes referred to as "The Italian Van Gogh". [1] Italian painter Mario Puccini Mario Puccini (date unknown) Born Mario Puccini ( 1869
#18 Richard Texier
Richard Texier (born June 28, 1955) is a French painter and sculptor. [1] [2] He lives and works in Paris. French painter and sculptor (born 1955) Portrait of Richard Texier
#19 Harvey Littleton
Harvey Littleton (June 14, 1922 – December 13, 2013) was an American glass artist and educator, one of the founders of the studio glass movement; he is often referred to as the "Father of the Studio Glass Movement". [1] Born in Corning, New York , he grew up in the shadow of Corning Glass Works , wh
#20 George Frampton
Sir George James Frampton , RA (18 June 1860 – 21 May 1928) was a British sculptor. He was a leading member of the New Sculpture movement in his early career when he created sculptures with elements of Art Nouveau and Symbolism , often combining different materials such as marble and bronze in a sin
#1 Museum of Sacred Art of São Paulo
The Museum of Sacred Art of São Paulo ( Portuguese : Museu de Arte Sacra de São Paulo ) a museum dedicated to the collection and display of sacred art of Brazil. [1] [2] It is located in the Luz neighborhood of São Paulo in the left wing of the Luz Monastery , a religious institution founded in 1774
#2 Maryland Institute College of Art
The Maryland Institute College of Art ( MICA ) is a private art and design college in Baltimore , Maryland . It was founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts , [3] making it one of the oldest art colleges in the United States. Private art and design college 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
#4 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
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
#6 Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
The Block Museum of Art is a free public art museum located on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston , Illinois . The Block Museum was established in 1980 when Chicago art collectors Mary (daughter of Albert Lasker ) and Leigh B. Block (former vice president of Inland Steel Company ), do
#7 Villa Manin
Villa Manin at Passariano is a Venetian villa located in Passariano of Codroipo , province of Udine , northern Italy . This article includes a list of references , related reading or external links , but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . ( October 2014 ) Main façade of t
#8 MUDAM
The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art ( French : Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean ), abbreviated to Mudam , is a museum of modern art in Luxembourg City , in southern Luxembourg . The museum stands on the site of the old Fort Thüngen , on the southwestern edge of the Kirchberg-plateau , in clos
Goa State Museum , also known as the State Archaeology Museum, Panaji , is a museum in Goa , India. Established in 1977, it contains departments including Ancient History and Archaeology, Art and Craft, and Geology. The museum, as of 2008, had about 8,000 artifacts on display, including stone sculpt
#10 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
#11 Musée Bartholdi
The Musée Bartholdi is a museum dedicated to French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and is situated at 30 rue des Marchands in Colmar , at the artist's birthplace. [1] The museum has the "Musée de France" label. [2] In 2011, the building was labeled " Maisons des Illustres " by the Ministry of Culture an
#12 Ronchini Gallery
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
#13 Timoteo Navarro Museum of Art
The Timoteo Navarro Provincial Museum of Fine Arts is the leading museum of its kind in Tucumán Province , Argentina . The Timoteo Navarro Museum of Art
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the principal public gallery in Auckland , New Zealand. It has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand and frequently hosts travelling international exhibitions. Art museum in Auckland, New Zealand Auckland Art Gallery Toi o
This article needs additional citations for verification . ( July 2018 ) West Bund Art & Design Established 2014 Location Shanghai Type Contemporary art Public transit access Yunjin Road 11 Website www.westbundshanghai.com
Pinacotheca was a gallery in Melbourne , Australia. Established in 1967 by Bruce Pollard, it was ideologically committed to the avant-garde and represented a new generation of artists interested in post-object, conceptual [1] and other non-traditional art forms. [2] Art gallery located in Melbourne,
Yarnbombing Los Angeles ( YBLA ) is a group of guerrilla knitters that have been collaborating since 2010. They are based at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California . YBLA stages public installation art and performances to help expand the definition of public art to embrace street ar
#18 Führermuseum
The Führermuseum or Fuhrer-Museum ( English : Leader's Museum ), also referred to as the Linz art gallery , was an unrealized art museum within a cultural complex planned by Adolf Hitler for his hometown, the Austrian city of Linz , near his birthplace of Braunau . Its purpose was to display a selec
Taliesin ( / ˌ t æ l i ˈ ɛ s ɪ n / ), sometimes known as Taliesin East , Taliesin Spring Green , or Taliesin North after 1937, was the estate of Welsh American architect Frank Lloyd Wright . An extended exemplar of the Prairie School of architecture, it is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of the v
#20 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
The Museum of Contemporary Art ( MOCA ) [1] in Tucson , Arizona , United States, was founded in 1997, by Julia Latane, James Graham, and David Wright. The museum was founded to create a permanent institution for contemporary art in Tucson 's arts district. Originally housed in the HazMat building on
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (also known as Our Lady of Perpetual Succour ) [note 1] is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a 15th-century Byzantine icon with an alleged Marian apparition . The icon is believed to have originated from the Keras Kardiotissas Monastery and
#2 List of works by Vincent van Gogh
List of works by Vincent van Gogh is an incomplete list of paintings and other works by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death. According to the legend, Van Gogh sold only one painting, The Red Vineyard , boug
#3 Black Lives Matter street mural (Portland, Oregon)
On June 18, 2020, Nick Lloyd painted the phrase " Black Lives Matter " in large bright yellow block letters on North Edison Street in Portland, Oregon 's St. Johns neighborhood. 2020 street mural in Portland, Oregon, U.S. Black Lives Matter street mural The "Black Lives Matter" mural in St. Johns (J
#4 Equestrian statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko (Milwaukee)
An equestrian statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko by the Italian and American artist Gaetano Trentanove is located on the south side of Milwaukee , Wisconsin , in the United States. [1] The bronze equestrian sculpture portrays Kościuszko in his military uniform and hat. [2] It is located at South 9th Place
The Button (officially, Split Button ) is a modern art sculpture that lies at the center of campus at the University of Pennsylvania . It was designed by Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg , who specializes in creating oversize sculptures of everyday objects. Modern art sculpture by Claes Oldenburg Th
#6 United Nations Security Council mural
The United Nations Security Council mural is an oil painting by Norwegian artist Per Krohg exhibited at the United Nations in New York City since August 22, 1952. [1] The mural, a 16' x 26' foot long canvas located on the United Nations Security Council 's east wall, features a central image of a ri
Robert Morris is a bronze statue by Paul Wayland Bartlett commemorating American Revolution financier and statesman Robert Morris . It is located at Independence Hall , on 4th Street and Walnut Street , Philadelphia . Sculpture by Paul Wayland Bartlett Robert Morris Artist Paul Wayland Bartlett Year
The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh . Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence , just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village. [1] [2] [3] It
The Fountain of the Bear (German: Bärenbrunnen ) is a reconstruction of a pre-war fountain, located by the southern wall of the Old Town Hall in Wrocław , Poland. [1] Reconstructed fountain Bear Fountain German: Bärenbrunnen Artist Ernst Moritz Geyger Year 1902 ( 1902 ) Type Public fountain Dimens
#10 List of paintings by John Constable
This is an incomplete list of the paintings of John Constable ( 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837), an artist of the Romanticism , famous for his rural scenes. [1] This article needs additional citations for verification . ( January 2021 )
The Great Day of Girona , originally El gran dia de Girona ( Catalan pronunciation: [əl ˈɣɾan ˈdi.ə ðə ʒiˈɾonə] ), is a large oil painting (4.96 × 10.82 m) by Ramon Martí Alsina depicting an important victory of Girona 's defenders over the French during the Third Siege of Girona in 1809. Complete
#12 The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (Caravaggio)
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610), is a painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio (1571–1610) and thought to be his last picture. [1] It is in the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, the Gallery of Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples . [1] Painting by Caravaggio The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula Italian: Mart
#13 List of most expensive paintings
This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings . The current record price is approximately US$ 450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci 's Salvator Mundi in November 2017. [1] [2] Salvator Mundi by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci ( c. 1500) is the most ex
#14 Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch
The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch , originally entitled Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the London Gazette Extraordinary of Thursday, June 22, 1815, Announcing the Battle of Waterloo , is an oil painting by David Wilkie , commissioned by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in Au
#15 The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo
The Meeting of Wellington and Blücher after the Battle of Waterloo is a monumental wall painting by Irish painter Daniel Maclise , completed in 1861. It depicts the moment towards the end of the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, when the commanders of the allied British and Prussian armies, the Du
#16 The Battle of Waterloo: The British Squares Receiving the Charge of the French Cuirassiers
The Battle of Waterloo: The British Squares Receiving the Charge of the French Cuirassiers is an 1874 oil painting by French artist Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux . It depicts a scene from the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, with squares of red-coated infantry from Sir Thomas Picton 's Briti
The Roses of Heliogabalus is an 1888 painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicting the young Roman emperor Elagabalus (203–222 AD) hosting a banquet. 1888 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema The Roses of Heliogabalus by Alma-Tadema (1888), oil on canvas.
The Princesse de Broglie ( French : La Princesse de Broglie [la pʁɛ̃.sɛs də bʁɔj] [1] [2] ) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres . It was painted between 1851 and 1853, and shows Pauline de Broglie [ fr ] , who adopted the courtesy title 'Pri
#19 Monna Rosa
Monna Rosa is the title of two oil paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti , both of Frances Leyland, the wife of shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland . The earlier and smaller painting was completed in 1862 and its whereabouts is now unknown. The second was completed in 1867 and is now in a priv
#20 Stratford Mill (Constable)
Stratford Mill is an 1820 oil on canvas painting by the British landscape artist John Constable . It is the second painting in the series of ‘six-footers’ depicting working scenes on the River Stour , a series that includes The Hay Wain . [1] The painting is now in the collection of the National Gal
Roger Harold Benjamin FAHA (born 18 June 1957 ) is professor of Art History at the University of Sydney . [1] Roger Benjamin FAHA Born 1957-06-18 ( 1957-06-18 ) (age 64) Occupation Art historian Awards Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award, Australian Research Council , 2003 Academic background
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
Allan Marquand ( / ˈ m ɑːr k w ən d / ; December 10, 1853 – September 24, 1924) was an art historian at Princeton University and a curator of the Princeton University Art Museum . American art historian Allan Marquand Born ( 1853-12-10 ) December 10, 1853 New York City , New York , U.S. Died Septemb
Robert René Meyer-Sée (1884 – after 1947) was a French art dealer and critic who was instrumental in organising the exhibition of Futurist painting at The Sackville Gallery in London in 1912. He ran the Marlborough Gallery where he organised an exhibition by the Italian Futurist Gino Severini , and
Helena Rubinstein (born Chaja Rubinstein ; December 25, 1870 [2] – April 1, 1965) was a Polish and American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. A cosmetics entrepreneur, she was the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein Incorporated cosmetics company, which made her one of the world'
#6 Timothy Rub
Timothy F. Rub (born 1952) is an American museum director and art historian. He currently holds the position of the George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art , one of the largest museums in the United States. American art historian
#7 Peter Trippi
Peter Trippi is editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur , a bimonthly magazine for collectors of representational painting, sculpture, drawings and prints—both historical and contemporary. From 2003 until 2006, Trippi was director of New York City's Dahesh Museum of Art , the only institution in the
Caroline Anne Freiin de Westenholz ( London , 1954) is an Anglo-Dutch art historian and writer. She is the founder of the Louis Couperus Museum in The Hague . Dutch art historian The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies . ( June 2016 )
Ernst Buchner (20 March 1892 – 3 June 1962) was a German museum administrator and art historian. A native of Munich , he was director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections , a position in German arts administration second only to the head of the Berlin museum network. He joined the Nazi Party i
François-Marc Gagnon CM FRSC was a Canadian art historian and professor at Concordia University in Montreal. [1] [2] [3] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada . Franco-Canadian art historian and professor (1935–2019) This article may be expanded with text
#11 Didier Ottinger
Didier Ottinger , born in Nancy in 1957, is a French museum curator, art critic and author. He is known for organizing exhibitions and publishing books on modern and contemporary painting. He is now assistant director of the Centre Pompidou [1] [2] at the Musée national d'art moderne in Paris. [3] F
#12 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
#13 Amy Yao
Amy Yao (born June 18, 1977, Los Angeles , California ) is a musician , curator , and contemporary visual artist making work in many different mediums informed by ideas of waste, consumption, and identity. [1] She is represented by 47 Canal in New York City . Yao is a lecturer in visual arts at Prin
#14 Alain Pasquier
Alain Pasquier (born 1 August 1942) is a French art historian specialising in ancient Greek art , museography and conservation. French art historian
#15 Sidney Colvin
Sir Sidney Colvin (18 June 1845 – 11 May 1927) was a British curator and literary and art critic, part of the illustrious Anglo-Indian Colvin family . He is primarily remembered for his friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson . Sir Sidney Colvin Born ( 1845-06-18 ) 18 June 1845 West Norwood , England
#16 Titu Maiorescu
Titu Liviu Maiorescu ( Romanian: [ˈtitu majoˈresku] ; 15 February 1840 – 18 June 1917) was a Romanian literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century. This articl
#1 Virginia Washington Monument
The Virginia Washington Monument , also known as the Washington Monument , is a 19th-century neoclassical statue of George Washington located on the public square in Richmond , Virginia . It was designed by Thomas Crawford (1814-1857) and completed under the supervision of Randolph Rogers (1825-1892
#2 List of statues of Leopold II of Belgium
This is a list of statues and monuments of Leopold II of Belgium [1] (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909), the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and, through his own initiative, the owner and absolute ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
#3 Statue of George Washington (Portland, Oregon)
A 1926–27 statue of George Washington by Italian American artist Pompeo Coppini , sometimes called George Washington , was installed in northeast Portland, Oregon , United States. [1] The bronze sculpture was the second of three statues of Washington by the artist, [2] following a similar statue ins
The Floating Piers was a temporary, site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude , consisting of 70,000 square meters of yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 226,000 high-density polyethylene cubes installed in 2016 at Lake Iseo near Brescia , Italy. The fabric creat
#5 Spiral Jetty
Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the most important work of American sculptor Robert Smithson . Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty . Built on the northeastern shore of the G
#6 Catholic Total Abstinence Union Fountain
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union Fountain (1874–77) – also known as The Catholic Total Abstinence Centennial Fountain or The Centennial Fountain – is a now defunct ornamental fountain and drinking fountain located in West Fairmount Park , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . Created as an attraction for
Freedom is a bronze public sculpture in the form of a large slab and a freestanding statue by American sculptor Zenos Frudakis , installed in 2000 outside the offices of GlaxoSmithKline in central Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. The sculpture invites viewers to pose for a photograph in an empty cavity.
#8 Wellington Monument, London
The Wellington Monument is a statue representing Achilles erected as a memorial to Arthur Wellesley, the first duke of Wellington , and his victories in the Peninsular War and the latter stages of the Napoleonic Wars . It is sited at the south-western end of Park Lane in London, and was inaugurated
#9 Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain
The Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain is a memorial fountain in President's Park in Washington, D.C. , in the United States. Dedicated in October 1913, it commemorates the deaths of Archibald Butt (the military aide to President William Howard Taft ) and Francis Davis Millet (a journalist and painter, a
#10 Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon
The Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon ( French : Transi de René de Chalon , also known as the Memorial to the Heart of René de Chalon or The Skeleton ) is a late Gothic period funerary monument , known as a transi , in the church of Saint-Étienne at Bar-le-Duc , in northeastern France. It consists of a
#11 Statue of Thomas Jefferson (David d'Angers)
A statue of American Founding Father and U.S. President Thomas Jefferson by the French sculptor David d'Angers stands in the Capitol rotunda of the U.S. Congress . The painted plaster model also stood in the chambers of the New York City Council . Statue in the U.S. Capitol, with a plaster version f
#12 Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, City of London
The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington is an outdoor sculpture of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , a British soldier and statesman, located at the Royal Exchange in London. [1] It overlooks Bank junction in the historic City of London . The sculptor was Francis Leggatt Chantrey .
The sculpture The Archer stands in the Jan Kochanowski Park in Bydgoszcz , facing the Polish Theater . The Archer pl: Łuczniczka View in Jan Kochanowski Park Artist Ferdinand Lepcke (1866-1909) Completion date 18 October 1910 ( 1910-10-18 ) Medium bronze Movement Neoclassicism Subject Young na
#14 DeKalb County Confederate Monument
The DeKalb County Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial that formerly stood in Decatur, Georgia , United States. The 30-foot stone obelisk was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy near the old county courthouse in 1908. [1] [2] DeKalb County Confederate Monument DeKalb County
#15 Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar
The Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar was an American fifty-cent piece struck in 1925 at the Philadelphia Mint . Its main purpose was to raise money on behalf of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association for the Stone Mountain Memorial near Atlanta, Georgia . Designed by sculptor Gutzo
#16 Statue of Christopher Columbus (San Francisco)
A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed in Pioneer Park , San Francisco, California . Statue formerly installed in Pioneer Park, San Francisco, California, U.S. Statue of Christopher Columbus The statue in 2015 Artist Count Vittorio di Colbertaldo Year 1957 Medium Bronze Subject Christopher C
#17 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
#18 Bust of Abd al-Rahman III, Cadrete
A bronze bust of Abd al-Rahman III , the first Caliph of Córdoba , was unveiled in June 2016 in the small Spanish town of Cadrete near Zaragoza in Aragon . Three years later, it was removed by the right-wing new local government. The removal prompted debate on how Spain should interpret the legacy o
#19 Wrocław's dwarfs
Wrocław’s gnomes ( Polish : krasnale ) are small figurines (20-30 cm ) that first appeared in the streets of Wrocław , Poland in 2005. Since then, their numbers have been continually growing, and today they are considered a tourist attraction: those who would like to combine sight-seeing in Wrocław
#20 Unconditional Surrender (sculpture)
Unconditional Surrender is a series of computer-generated statues by Seward Johnson that resemble an iconic 1945 photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt , V–J day in Times Square , but was said by Johnson to be based on a similar, less well-known, photograph by Victor Jorgensen that is in the public domain