langs: 4 июня [ru] / june 4 [en] / 4. juni [de] / 4 juin [fr] / 4 giugno [it] / 4 de junio [es]
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Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele is a French stylist, art director and photographer. [1] Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele Born Saint-Tropez, France Nationality French
Henry Moore RA RWS (7 March 1831 in York – 22 June 1895 in Margate ) was an English marine and landscape painter. English marine and landscape painter This article is about the painter Henry Moore. For the sculptor or others of the name, see Henry Moore (disambiguation) . Henry Moore Self-portrait o
José da Cunha Taborda (28 April 1766 - 4 June 1836) was a Portuguese painter and architect. Portuguese painter and architect José da Cunha Taborda portrait of José da Cunha Taborda, 1833 Born ( 1766-04-28 ) 28 April 1766 Died 4 June 1836 (1836-06-04) (aged 70) Nationality Portuguese He was born at
#4 Louis Huvey
Louis Huvey (4 June 1868 – 4 March 1954) was a French painter, printmaker and poster artist. French painter Louis Huvey 1954 photograph of Huvey Born ( 1868-06-01 ) 1 June 1868 Saint-Étienne , Loire Died 4 March 1954 (1954-03-04) (aged 85) Nationality French Occupation painter, printmaker and post
Alice Instone (born 4 June 1975) is an English artist. She is known for making work concerned with gender, personal narrative and the similarities that bind us together; frequently collaborating with well-known public figures. English artist Alice Instone Instone in 2016 Education King's College Lon
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits . John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. [1] He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He wa
Anton Altmann (1808–1871) was an Austrian landscape painter. Austrian painter
#8 Carl Nebel
Carl Nebel (18 March 1805 – 4 June 1855) was a German engineer, architect and draughtsman, [1] best known for his detailed paintings and lithographic prints made from them of the Mexican landscape and people during the battles of the Mexican–American War . German painter
Signe Margaret Stuart (née Nelson ) (born 1937) is an American artist best known for her abstract paintings and works on paper that are informed by Minimalism, quantum physics and the study of consciousness. American artist (born 1937) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for
Nicolaas van der Horst or Nicolaus van der Horst ( Antwerp , circa 1587-1598 – Brussels , 1646) was a Flemish painter , draughtsman and tapestry designer. [1] He was courtier at the court of the governors of the Habsburg Netherlands in Brussels and given the title of Archer de la Garde. [2] [3] He a
#11 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
Kurt von Holleben (7 March 1894 – 14 January 1947) was a German chemist working for Agfa-Gevaert Technical-Scientific Laboratory as the head of the colour screen research group, overseeing development of Additive color screens (kornraster) for the Agfa-Farbenplatte glass plates (1916), and film base
#13 James Abbott McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler RBA ( / ˈ w ɪ s l ər / ; July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo " art fo
#14 Jonathan Routh
Jonathan Routh , born John Reginald Surdeval Routh , [1] (1927–2008) co-starred in the British version of the television show Candid Camera (1960–67) and co-starred with Germaine Greer and Kenny Everett in a later attempt at a revival, Nice Time (1968). He published a number of humorous books, and a
#15 Marisa Merz
Marisa Merz (23 May 1926 – 20 July 2019) was an Italian artist and sculptor. [1] In the 1960s, Merz was the only female protagonist associated with the radical Arte povera movement. [2] [3] In 2013 she was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale . [4] She lived and
#16 Otto Dill
Otto Dill (4 June 1884 – 6 July 1957) was a German painter . His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics . [1] German painter Otto Dill Born ( 1884-06-04 ) 4 June 1884 Neustadt an der Weinstraße , Germany Died 6 July 1957 (1957-07-06) (aged 73
#17 Onslow Whiting
Onslow Ernest Whiting (4 June 1872 – 4 August 1937) was an English sculptor and teacher. [1] English sculptor
#18 Joseph Pennell
Joseph Pennell (July 4, 1857 – April 23, 1926) was an American draftsman, etcher, lithographer and illustrator for books and magazines. [1] A prolific artist, he spent most of his working life in Europe, and is known for his interest in landmarks, landscapes and industrial scenes around the world. [
#19 Bernard Safran
Bernard Safran (June 3, 1924 – October 14, 1995) was an American painter known for his realistic portraits and scenes of everyday life in New York and in rural Canada . He created many portraits for Time magazine covers, with subjects that included Elizabeth II , Pope John XXIII , Dwight D. Eisenhow
#20 Harry Beck
Henry Charles Beck (4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974) was an English technical draughtsman who created the present London Underground Tube map in 1931. [1] Beck drew the diagram after being fired at the London Metro Signal Office. [1] Although his design was initially rejected, the Publicity Office
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
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
The Vigeland Museum ( Norwegian : Vigelandmuseet ) is a museum dedicated to Gustav Vigeland in Frogner , Oslo . It is located outside Frogner Park , which includes the Vigeland installation with sculptures by Gustav Vigeland. The museum is part of Oslo municipality's cultural department. Vigeland Mu
#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
#5 National Gallery of Modern Art
The National Gallery of Modern Art ( NGMA ) is the premier art gallery under Ministry of Culture , Government of India. [1] The main museum at Jaipur House in New Delhi was established on 29 March 1954 by the Government of India , with subsequent branches at Mumbai and Bangalore . Its collection of
The Bucerius Kunst Forum is an international exhibition centre in Hamburg , Germany, founded in 2002 through the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius foundation. It is named after Gerd Bucerius and his wife, and located directly beside the Hamburg Rathaus . The exhibition centre shows 3 - 4 exhibi
#7 National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria , popularly known as the NGV , is an art museum in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. Art museum in Melbourne, Australia National Gallery of Victoria NGV International on St Kilda Road in Southbank
Watts Gallery – Artists' Village is an art gallery in the village of Compton , near Guildford in Surrey . It is dedicated to the work of the Victorian-era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts . Art gallery in Compton, UK, dedicated to George Frederic Watts Watts Gallery Watts Gallery (restored
The Willard Gallery was a contemporary art gallery operating in New York City from 1940 until 1987. It was founded by Marian Willard Johnson. [1]
#10 Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales ( AGNSW ), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney , Australia. It is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the largest i
#11 Zaans Museum
Zaans Museum ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈzaːns myˈzeːjʏm] ) is a museum in Zaandam , Netherlands , located at the Zaanse Schans . It opened in 1998 to preserve and protect the heritage of the Zaan area. In 2009, the museum was extended with the addition of the Verkade Experience. Industrial heritage mu
#12 Woburn Abbey
Woburn Abbey ( / ˈ w oʊ b ər n / ), [n 1] [3] occupying the east of the village of Woburn , Bedfordshire , England, is a country house , the family seat of the Duke of Bedford . Although it is still a family home to the current duke, it is open on specified days to visitors, along with the diverse e
#13 Galerie Chalette
Galerie Chalette was a private contemporary art gallery in Manhattan , New York , USA. It was founded by the married art dealers and collectors Madeleine Chalette Lejwa (1915–1996) and Arthur Lejwa (1895–1972) in February 1954. The Lejwas were refugees from the Nazi invasions of Poland and France .
#14 Koffler Centre of the Arts
The Koffler Centre of the Arts is a broad-based cultural institution established in 1977 by Murray and Marvelle Koffler and based at Artscape Youngplace in the West Queen West area of downtown Toronto , Ontario . [1] Koffler Centre of the Arts Location of the Koffler in Toronto Established 1977 Loca
#15 Creux de l'Enfer
The Creux de l'Enfer is a contemporary art center located in Thiers , France. It opened in 1988 in a former cutlery factory which closed in 1956. [1] French art gallery This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French . (October 2020) Click [show] for import
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,
#17 Institute of American Indian Arts
The Institute of American Indian Arts ( IAIA ) is a public tribal land-grant college in Santa Fe, New Mexico . The college focuses on Native American art . It operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), which is housed in the historic Santa Fe Federal Building (the old Post Office), a l
Magda Danysz Gallery is an art gallery in Paris , France , owned by Magda Danysz , an art dealer and art curator. 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 ) A major contributor to this a
#19 Galeria Olympia
Galeria Olympia is an art gallery in Cracow, Poland established in 1999, that shows works by contemporary artists. Its name refers to the name of the founder, Olimpia Maciejewska, [1] and to the title of a 1863 painting by Edouard Manet . [2] The gallery is located in the Podgórze district , at Lima
#20 Aga Khan Museum
The Aga Khan Museum ( French : Musée Aga Khan ) is a museum of Islamic art , Iranian (Persian) art and Muslim culture located at 77 Wynford Drive in the North York district of Toronto , Ontario , Canada. [1] The museum is dedicated to Islamic art and objects, and it houses approximately 1,200 rare o
The Roulin Family is a group of portrait paintings Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles in 1888 and 1889 on Joseph, his wife Augustine and their three children: Armand, Camille and Marcelle. This series is unique in many ways. Although Van Gogh loved to paint portraits, it was difficult for financial
#2 Oliver P. Morton (monument)
Oliver P. Morton and Reliefs is a public artwork by Austrian artist Rudolph Schwarz , located on the east side of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis , Indiana , at the intersection of North Capitol Avenue and West Market Street. Oliver P. Morton and Reliefs Artist Rudolph Schwarz Year 1907 ( 1
#3 Statue of Bedřich Smetana, Prague
The statue of Bedřich Smetana is a sculpture of the famous Czech composer Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) located outside the Smetana Museum in Prague , Czech Republic. It was unveiled on 4 June 1984, the one-hundred-year anniversary of his death. The bronze sculpture, 235 cm high and weighing about a
#4 Splendid Mountain Watercolours
Splendid Mountain Watercolours or Splendid Mountain Sketchbook is a collection of sketches and watercolors by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), executed when he was fourteen years old, and on a summer excursion to Switzerland 's Bernese Alps in the Berner Oberland in 1870. The sketchbook contains 60
#5 Woman giving Money to a Servant-Girl
Lady handing a coin to a Servant-Girl (c. 1668–1672) is an oil -on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch . It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in a private collection. Lady handing a coin to a Servant-Girl Artist Pieter de Hooch Year 1668–1672 Medium oil on canvas
#6 The Italian Camp at the Battle of Magenta
The Italian Camp at the Battle of Magenta is an 1862 oil on canvas painting by Giovanni Fattori , now in the Gallery of Modern Art in Palazzo Pitti in Florence. [1] It shows a scene from the battle of Magenta on 4 June 1859 during the Second Italian War of Independence . 1862 painting by Giovanni Fa
#7 Chaos I
Chaos I is a kinetic artwork by Swiss artist Jean Tinguely located inside The Commons, which is downtown Columbus, Indiana , United States. The work was commissioned by J. Irwin Miller , his wife Xenia Miller , and E. Celementine Tangeman (Miller's sister) in late 1971 for The Commons, an enclosed p
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 Portrait of Catharina Hooghsaet
Portrait of Catharina Hooghsaet (1607–1685) is a 1657 painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt . [1] Portrait of Catharina Hooghsaet Artist Rembrandt Year 1657 ( 1657 ) Catalogue Rembrandt Research Project , A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI: #258 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 123.5
Our Lady of Łukawiec (Polish: Matka Boża Łukawiecka), earlier Our Lady of Tartaków (Polish: Matka Boża Tartakowska), also known as Our Lady Full of Graces (Polish: Matka Boża Łaskawa) is a Roman Catholic icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary. [1] Our Lady of Łukawiec (Our Lady of Tartaków) Polish: Matka B
#11 Paintings of Children (Van Gogh series)
Vincent van Gogh enjoyed making Paintings of Children. He once said that it's the only thing that "excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else." Painting children, in particular represented rebirth and the infinite. Over his career Van Gogh did n
The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger . Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve , [1] after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period , in the same year Elizabeth I was born. Franny Moyle speculates that Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn , th
The Four Freedoms is a series of four oil paintings made in 1943 by the American artist Norman Rockwell . The paintings— Freedom of Speech , Freedom of Worship , Freedom from Want , and Freedom from Fear —are each approximately 45.75 by 35.5 inches (116.2 by 90.2 cm) , [1] and are now in the Norma
#14 Statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi (New York City)
An outdoor bronze sculpture of Giuseppe Garibaldi , one of the leaders of Italian unification , is installed in Washington Square Park in Manhattan , New York. Bronze sculpture of Giuseppe Garibaldi in Manhattan, New York, U.S. Statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi The sculpture in 2005 Artist Giovanni Turin
#15 Poppy Flowers
Poppy Flowers (also known as Vase And Flowers and Vase with Viscaria ) is a painting by Vincent van Gogh with an estimated value of US$50 million [1] to $55 million; [2] it was stolen from Cairo 's Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum twice; first in 1977 (and recovered after a decade), then again in Augus
#16 Portrait of a Man in a Yellowish-Gray Jacket
Portrait of a Man in a Yellowish-gray Jacket is an oil-on-panel portrait painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals , painted in 1633 and now in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Dresden . Painting by Frans Hals Portrait of a Man in a Yellowish-Gray Jacket Portrait of a Man in a Yell
#17 George Floyd mural (Portland, Oregon)
A mural of George Floyd was painted by Emma Berger outside Portland, Oregon 's Apple Pioneer Place , on June 1, 2020, a week after his murder , against the background of the ongoing protests against police brutality. She expanded the mural to show Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and phrases associa
#18 Willy Brandt Memorial (Nuremberg)
The Willy Brandt Memorial at the Willy Brandt Place in Nuremberg remembers the former Federal Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Willy Brandt . The bronze sculpture, which is sitting on a bench, was opened on 9 November 2009 in Anwesenheit by Ulrich Maly , Josef Tabachnyk and numerous contempor
#19 Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision
Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision is one of the paintings that was made as a part of the Stuckism art movement, [1] [2] and is recognized as a "signature piece" for the movement, [3] It was painted by the Stuckism co-founder Charles Thomson in 2000, and has been exhibited in a numbe
#20 From Darkness, the Light (Johann Ender)
From Darkness, the Light ( Hungarian : Borura derü! ) or Allegory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( Hungarian : A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia allegóriája ) is a monumental painting by Johann Ender in the Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest . It is also the official sy
Roxana Robinson (born 30 November 1946) is an American novelist and biographer whose fiction explores the complexity of familial bonds and fault lines. She is best known for her 2008 novel, Cost , which was named one of the Five Best Novels of the Year [1] by The Washington Post. She is also the aut
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
Adriano Alpago-Novello (July 10, 1932 in Belluno – June 4, 2005 in Belluno) was an Italian architect, art historian and professor. Italian architect, art historian and professor Adriano Alpago-Novello Born ( 1932-07-20 ) 20 July 1932 Belluno , Veneto , Italy Died 4 June 2005 (2005-06-04) (aged 72)
Laura Mattioli (born May 28, 1950) is an Italian art historian, a collector and a curator. Since 2013, she has been the President of the Center for Modern Italian Art in New York City. [1]
#5 Esmé Berman
Esmé Berman (1929 - 4 June 2017 [1] ) was a South African art historian. [2] She earned a degree in visual arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1946. [3] In 1952, she married Hymie Berman, an art collector. [4] She is best known for writing Art and Artists of South Africa , the first com
#6 Rafael Cardoso (art historian)
Rafael Cardoso (born 4 June 1964) is a Brazilian art historian and writer. His published work includes numerous books and essays on the history of art and design in Brazil, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has also published four works of fiction, including Entre as Mulheres (2007) which first
#7 Max Dvořák
Max Dvořák (4 June 1874 – 8 February 1921) was a Czech -born Austrian art historian . He was a professor of art history at the University of Vienna and a famous member of the Vienna School of Art History , employing a Geistesgeschichte methodology. Czech-born Austrian art historian Max Dvorak Max Dv
Niels Laurits Andreas Høyen (4 June 1798 – 29 April 1870) is considered to be the first Danish art historian and critic. He promoted a Danish nationalistic art through his writings and lectures, and exerted a far reaching effect on contemporary artists. His work in various cultural institutions help
#9 John Richardson (art historian)
Sir John Patrick Richardson , KBE , FBA (6 February 1924 – 12 March 2019) was a British art historian and biographer of Pablo Picasso . Richardson also worked as an industrial designer and as a reviewer for The New Observer . American art historian (1924–2019) For other people with the same name, se
Charles Henry Caffin (June 4, 1854 – January 14, 1918) was an Anglo-American writer and art critic, born in Sittingbourne , Kent, England. After graduating from Magdalen College , Oxford , in 1876, with a broad background in culture and aesthetics, he engaged in scholastic and theatrical work. In 18
#11 Guy Ullens
Baron Guy François Edouard Marie Ullens de Schooten Whettnall (born 31 January 1935) is a Belgian art collector , philanthropist , and former businessperson. Belgian art collector Baron Guy Ullens Ullens at the 2014 UCCA exhibition Born Guy François Edouard Marie Ullens de Schooten Whettnall ( 1935-
Gordon H. Fleming (June 4, 1920 – May 30, 1999) was an American writer, critic and professor who specialized in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . Outside of academia he was best known for several "clippings books" he published about various baseball teams and seasons. These books used selections from
#13 Rasmus Meyer
Rasmus Meyer (4 June 1858 – 14 January 1916) was a Norwegian industrialist, mill owner and art collector. He is most commonly associated with the Rasmus Meyer art collection ( Rasmus Meyers samlinger ) in Bergen. [1] Rasmus Meyer Born ( 1858-06-04 ) 4 June 1858 Bergen , Norway Died 14 January 1916
Evelina " Eva " Palmer-Sikelianos ( Greek : Εύα Πάλμερ-Σικελιανού ; January 9, 1874 – June 4, 1952) was an American woman notable for her study and promotion of Classical Greek culture, weaving, theater, choral dance and music. Palmer's life and artistic endeavors intersected with numerous noteworth
Deanna Petherbridge CBE (born 1939) is an artist, writer and curator. Petherbridge's practice is drawing-based (predominantly pen and ink drawings on paper), although she has also produced large-scale murals and designed for the theatre. Her publications in the area of art and architecture are conce
#16 Albert Aurier
Gabriel-Albert Aurier (5 May 1865 – 5 October 1892) was a French poet , art critic and painter , associated with the Symbolist movement. Albert Aurier, c. 1890
#17 Magda Danysz
Magda Danysz (born September 1974), is a French art curator and art dealer, she owns her galleries named Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris , in Shanghai , and in London . French art curator and art dealer This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines . ( November
#18 Heribert Reiners
Heribert Reiners (23 August 1884 – 4 June 1960) was a German art historian and academic teacher at the Universities in Bonn and Fribourg . [1] German art historian
#19 David J. Clarke
David James Clarke (born 1954) is honorary professor of modern and contemporary art history at the University of Hong Kong where he taught from 1986 to 2017. [1] He was born in Somerset , England, earned his PhD in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art , University of London, in 1983. As a
#20 Ernst Langlotz
Ernst Langlotz (6 July 1895, in Ronneburg – 4 June 1978, in Bonn ) was a German classical archaeologist and art historian, who specialized in Greek sculpture of the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. He studied classical archaeology, philology and art history at the universities of Leipzig and Munich , rece
#1 Monument in Memory of Chinese from Tiananmen
The Monument in Memory of Chinese from Tiananmen , [lower-alpha 1] [1] also known as the Monument of the Victims of the Tiananmen Square Pacification , [lower-alpha 2] [2] is a monument in Wrocław , Poland at Oławska Street . [2] It commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing and the
The Statue of The Republic is a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park , Chicago , Illinois by Daniel Chester French . The colossal original statue, a centerpiece of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, was destroyed by fire. The present statue is a smaller-scale replica
The Battle Monument , located in Battle Monument Square on North Calvert Street between East Fayette and East Lexington Streets in Baltimore, Maryland , commemorates the Battle of Baltimore with the British fleet of the Royal Navy 's bombardment of Fort McHenry , the Battle of North Point , southeas
A memorial to the English Quaker , abolitionist and activist Joseph Sturge (1793–1859) was unveiled before a crowd of 12,000 people on 4 June 1862 at Five Ways , Birmingham, England, near his former home. [1] The statue has been grade II listed since 8 June 1982. [1] [2] [3] Statue to Joseph Sturge
One Riot, One Ranger is a bronze statue of a Texas Ranger , installed from 1961 to 2020 at Dallas Love Field , named for the famous story of Bill McDonald, a captain of Ranger Company B, in the 1900s who by himself broke up an illegal boxing match in the U.S. state of Texas . Bronze statue of a Texa
The Hiker is a statue created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson . It commemorates the American soldiers who fought in the Spanish–American War , the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine–American War . The first version of it was made for the University of Minnesota in 1906, [1] but at least 50 copies were
#7 Confederate Memorial (Arlington National Cemetery)
The Confederate Memorial is a memorial in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia , in the United States, that commemorates members of the armed forces of the Confederate States of America who died during the American Civil War . Authorized in March 1906, former Confederate soldier
#8 Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese
Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese are marble portrait sculptures executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1632. Cardinal Scipione Borghese was the nephew of Pope Paul V , and had commissioned other works from Bernini in the 1620s. Both versions of this portrait are in the Galleri
A bust of Hadrian ( r. 117 – 138 AD ), the second-century Roman emperor who rebuilt the Pantheon and constructed the Temple of Venus and Roma , was formerly displayed in Pope Sixtus V 's Villa Montalto and is now displayed at the British Museum in London. [1] The bust is one of the Townley Mar
#10 Pillar of Shame
Pillar of Shame is a series of sculptures by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt memorialising the loss of life during specific events or caused by specific circumstances in history. Each sculpture is an eight metres (26 ft) tall statue of bronze , copper or concrete . Sculpture series by Jens Galschiot
The Victoria Memorial is a monument to Queen Victoria , located at the end of The Mall in London , and designed and executed by the sculptor (Sir) Thomas Brock . Designed in 1901, it was unveiled on 16 May 1911, though it was not completed until 1924. It was the centrepiece of an ambitious urban pla
#12 Confederate Memorial (Romney, West Virginia)
The Confederate Memorial (also referred to as the First Confederate Memorial ) at Indian Mound Cemetery in Romney, West Virginia , commemorates residents of Hampshire County who died during the American Civil War while fighting for the Confederate States of America . It was sponsored by the Confeder
A large number of monuments were erected in Germany in honour of Emperor William I (known in German as Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal ). As early as 1867 the Berlin sculptor, Friedrich Drake , had created the first equestrian statue , that portrayed William I as the King of Prussia . To date the Prussian Mo
#14 Col. Crawford Burn Site Monument
The Colonel Crawford Burn Site Monument is a war monument in rural Wyandot County , Ohio , United States . Placed in the 1870s, it commemorates the death by burning of Colonel William Crawford during the concluding years of the American Revolution. The stone monument itself was long the subject of l
#15 Goddess of Democracy (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong's Goddess of Democracy is a 6.4-metre faux bronze statue sculpted by Chen Weiming , inspired by the original 10-metre tall Goddess of Democracy . The original foam and papier-mâché statue was erected by the Chinese pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square at the end of May 1989, and dest
#16 Free Nelson Mandela (sculpture)
Free Nelson Mandela is a sculpture in Atlanta, Georgia , USA , created by David Hammons in 1987. Alternatively referred to as a monument, the piece was originally created as a statement demanding the liberation of the imprisoned South African activist, Nelson Mandela . The official title is Nelson M
#17 HSBC lions
Various headquarters and branch buildings of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (and later the HSBC Group) feature a pair of lion sculptures. The HSBC lions have become distinctive landmarks in their own right in Hong Kong and Shanghai, with further pairs to be found in London and Birming
Huseyn Javid Monument ( Azerbaijani : Hüseyn Cavidin heykəli ) is a monument to the Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Javid , located in Baku , the capital of Azerbaijan , in a park named in his honour, located on the Huseyn Javid Avenue. The authors of the bronze-cast monument are the People's Artist of Azer
Rubber Duck is a series of several giant floating sculptures of yellow rubber ducks , designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman , which have appeared in many cities around the world, including Hong Kong , Pittsburgh , Toronto , Kaohsiung , Baku , and Sydney . Each Rubber Duck is recreated anew loca
#20 Lafayette Square (Buffalo)
Lafayette Square (formerly Court House Park or Courthouse Square ) [1] is a park in the center of downtown Buffalo , Erie County, New York , United States that hosts a Civil War monument. The block, which was once square, is lined by many of the city's tallest buildings. The square was named for Gen