langs: 5 ноября [ru] / november 5 [en] / 5. november [de] / 5 novembre [fr] / 5 novembre [it] / 5 de noviembre [es]
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Georgy Bogdanovich Yakulov , (Armenian Յակուլյան Գևորգ Բոգդանի Georges Yakulov (January 2 (14), 1884, Tiflis — December 28, 1928, Yerevan ) - Russian and soviet artist of Armenian origin, painter , graphic artist , decorator, set designer , art theorist . Close to the circle of avant-garde innovator
Thomas Hennell (16 April 1903 – 1945) was a British artist and writer who specialised in illustrations and essays on the subject of the British countryside. He was an official war artist during the Second World War and was killed while serving in Indonesia in November 1945. [2] British artist Thomas
Alexander Kucharsky (18 March 1741 – 5 November 1819) [1] also Alexandre Kucharsky , was a Polish portrait painter who spent his adult life in France. He himself used the spelling Kucharsky , [2] but Kucharski is also often used. In the past, in France, the name has been given as Couaski . Polish po
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
#5 Rolf Rude
Rolf Rude (2 April 1899 – 5 November 1971) was a Norwegian painter. Norwegian painter (1899–1971) A picture of Rolf Rude He was born in Oslo as a son of photographer Ernest Rude . He is represented in the National Gallery of Norway with six paintings and several woodcuts . He chaired the Association
#6 August Friedrich Oelenhainz
August Friedrich Oelenhainz (June 28, 1745 – November 5, 1804) was a German painter. [1] German painter Portrait of Maria Josepha Hermengilde von Liechtenstein by August Friedrich Oelenhainz Oelenhainz's father was a preacher. He studied under his uncle Wolfgang Dietrich Mayr in Tübingen , and then
Giulio Paolini (born 5 November 1940) is an Italian artist associated with both Arte Povera and Conceptual Art . [1] Italian artist This article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original ar
Colin Frangicetto (born July 3, 1981) is a musician and painter from Langhorne, Pennsylvania . He is currently one of two guitarists in the experimental rock outfit Circa Survive , sole musician in Psychic Babble and previously in the band This Day Forward . American musician and painter Colin Frang
Benjamin Robert Haydon ( / ˈ h eɪ d ə n / ; 26 January 1786 – 22 June 1846) was a British painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits. His commercial success was damaged by his often tactless dealings with patrons, and by
#10 Joseph DeCamp
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (November 5, 1858 – February 11, 1923) was an American painter and educator. American painter Joseph DeCamp Joseph Rodefer DeCamp Born ( 1858-11-05 ) November 5, 1858 Cincinnati, Ohio Died February 11, 1923 (1923-02-11) (aged 64) Boca Grande, Florida Known for Portraits,
#11 Dora Dolz
Dora Dolz de Herman ( Barcelona , 5 November 1941 - Rotterdam , 1 March 2008) [1] was a Spanish-Dutch artist, best known for her ceramic outdoors in the form of chairs and sofas. Spanish-Dutch artist (1941–2008) Dora Dolz Dora Dolz in Haarlem, 1993. Born 5 November 1941 Barcelona , Spain Died 1 Marc
#12 William Ely Hill
W.E. Hill (1887-1962) was an American cartoonist and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th-century. He is best known for his weekly full-page illustration series "Among Us Mortals" published in the New York Tribune from 1916 to 1922, and for creating the most popular iteration of the opti
#13 Ivor Montagu
Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (23 April 1904, in Kensington, London – 5 November 1984, in Watford) was an English filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player, and Communist activist in the 1930s. He helped to develop a lively intellectual film culture in Britain during
#14 Maurice Utrillo
Maurice Utrillo ( French: [mɔʁis ytʁijo, moʁ- ] ), born Maurice Valadon ; 26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955), was a French painter of School of Paris who specialized in cityscapes . Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were b
#15 Gordon Walters
Gordon Frederick Walters (24 September 1919 – 5 November 1995) was a Wellington -born artist and graphic designer who is significant to New Zealand culture due to his representation of New Zealand in his Modern Abstract artworks. New Zealand artist (1919–1995) This article needs additional citations
#16 Eugen Bracht
Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht (3 June 1842 – 5 November 1921) was a German landscape painter. German painter This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German . (September 2016) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation like DeepL
#17 Mabel Annesley
Lady Mabel Marguerite Annesley HRUA (25 February 1881 – 19 June 1959) was a wood-engraver and watercolour painter. Her work is in many collections, including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of New Zealand. She exhibited in the Festiva
#18 Gustavo Simoni
Gustavo Simoni (5 November 1845, in Rome – 10 May 1926, in Palestrina ) was an Italian painter, watercolorist and art teacher. He is best known his Orientalist scenes. This article includes a list of references , related reading or external links , but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inl
#19 Thomas Dewing
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of
Edmund Bartłomiejczyk (5 November 1885 – 2 September 1950) was a Polish painter . His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics . [1] Polish painter Edmund Bartłomiejczyk Edmund Bartłomiejczyk in 1936 Born ( 1885-11-05 ) 5 November 1885 Warsaw , Poland Di
#1 Eastern Edge
Eastern Edge Gallery is an artist-run centre based in St. John's , Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada. Eastern Edge Gallery was established in 1984 as the first artist-run centre in the province. In 1987, it moved out of the LSPU Hall in to Flavin St, where City Building inspectors posted "stop-occu
The Carnegie Museum of Art , abbreviated CMOA , is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . The museum was founded in 1895 by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie . [1] [ self-published source? ] It was the first museum in the United States with a primary
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
#5 National Gallery for Foreign Art
The National Gallery for Foreign Art ( Bulgarian : Национална галерия за чуждестранно изкуство , Natsionalna galeriya za chuzhdestranno izkustvo ) of Bulgaria is a gallery located on St. Alexander Nevsky Square in Sofia . It serves as the country's national institution for non-Bulgarian art. It is s
#6 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
Rivington Arms was an art gallery in New York City . Melissa Bent and Mirabelle Marden (daughter of artists Helen and Brice Marden ) founded the gallery as a small storefront on Rivington Street in 2001, part of a new wave of galleries opening in the Lower East Side . [1] In 2005, it moved to a larg
#8 Depot Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (initially called 'het Collectiegebouw' (Collection Building), popularly called 'The Pot' [1] ) is an art depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. It is the first publicly accessible art depot in the world. This article needs additional citations for verifica
#9 The Rotunda (New York City)
The Rotunda was a building that stood in City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan , New York City, from 1818 to 1870. [1] Former art gallery in City Hall Park in Manhattan, New York For other uses, see Rotunda (disambiguation) . The Rotunda Frontispiece to Views of the Public Buildings in the City of New Y
#10 Willard Gallery
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]
#11 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
#12 Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum
The Richard and Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum is an art museum located in the historic Indian Dormitory building on Mackinac Island, Michigan . The museum's exhibits feature art inspired by Mackinac Island, including historic painting and maps, photographs from the mid-19th to the mid-20th cent
The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) is one of the principal U.S. art museums , with paintings , sculptures , cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from all corners of the world. Its three-story building stands in Forest Park in St. Louis , Missouri , where it is visited by up to a half million pe
The Royal Castle in Warsaw ( Polish : Zamek Królewski w Warszawie ) is a royal residence that formerly served throughout the centuries as the official home of Polish monarchs . It is situated in Castle Square , at the entrance to the Warsaw Old Town . The personal offices of the king and the adminis
#15 Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site
Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site is a historic house museum located in the Getty Square neighborhood of Yonkers , New York . Originally the family seat of Philipse Manor , it is Westchester County 's second oldest standing building after the Timothy Knapp House . Located near the Hudson River
#16 Hoosier Salon
The Hoosier Salon is an annual juried art exhibition that features the work of Indiana artists and provides them with an outlet to market their work. The Hoosier Salon Patron's Association, the nonprofit arts organization that organizes the event, also operates year-round galleries in Carmel, Indian
#17 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
#18 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen ( Dutch pronunciation: [myˈzeːjʏm ˈbɔimɑns fɑm ˈbøːnɪŋə(n)] ) [lower-alpha 1] is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands . The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuning
Midway Contemporary Art is a non-profit arts organization located in Minneapolis , Minnesota . Its gallery and research library are located in the Sheridan and Marcy Homes neighborhoods of the city, respectively. Both are free and open to the public. Midway Contemporary Art Midway Contemporary Art i
#20 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
#1 Teeth Tracks
Teeth Tracks is a painting by Ellen Gallagher . It is in the collection of The Broad in Los Angeles in the United States . Painting by Ellen Gallagher Teeth Tracks Artist Ellen Gallagher Year 1996 Medium Oil, pencil and paper mounted on canvas Dimensions 162.56 cm × 142.24 cm (64.00 in × 5
The Esterhazy Madonna is an oil-on-canvas painting by Raphael , created c. 1508, held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest , in Hungary . It was stolen on the night of 5 November 1983, along with other works by Raphael, Giorgione , Tintoretto and Tiepolo . All the works, including this one, were r
#3 All-Union art exhibition (Moscow, 1957)
The All-Union Art Exhibition (Moscow, 1957) devoted to the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution ( Russian : Всесоюзная художественная выставка, посвящённая 40-летию Великой Октябрьской социалистической революции ) was one of the largest art exhibitions in Soviet history. Exhibition took place
#4 Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase
Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase (originally in French Femme nue montant l'escalier ) is a drawing done with pencil and charcoal on card made by Joan Miró in 1937. It is part of the permanent collection of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. [1] Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase French: Femme nue mo
These Are My Jewels (also known as Ohio's Jewels: Grant, Sheridan, Stanton, Garfield, Hayes, Chase, and Sherman , or simply Ohio's Jewels ) is an 1893–1894 monument by Levi Scofield , installed outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio , United States. [1] War monument in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Th
#6 La Gommeuse
La Gommeuse [la ɡɔmøz] is a 1901 oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso . It dates from his Blue Period and is noted for its caricature of Picasso's friend Pere Mañach painted on the reverse. Gommeuse was sexually charged slang of the time for café-concert singers and their songs
Art belongs to the people. Anniversary Exhibition of Leningrad artists (Leningrad, 1977) ( Russian : Искусство принадлежит народу. Выставка произведений ленинградских художников, посвящённая 60-летию Великого Октября ), dedicated to 60th Anniversary of Great October Revolution of 1917, became one of
#8 In memory of Teacher (Saint Petersburg, 1997)
Retrospective Exhibition "In memory of Teacher. Exhibition of Saint Petersburg artists - students workshop of Alexander Osmerkin" ( Russian : Памяти учителя. Выставка петербургских художников - учеников мастерской А. А. Осмеркина ) became one of the notable event in the Saint Petersburg exhibition l
Horses in Landscape is a watercolour with pencil on paper by the German painter Franz Marc , executed in 1911. It is probably a study, which was thought to be lost, for the painting Blue Horses (1911). The painting became known worldwide on the occasion of the Schwabing art discovery in November 201
The Sermon of Piotr Skarga [1] or Skarga's Sermon ( Polish : Kazanie Skargi ) is a large oil painting by Jan Matejko , finished in 1864, now in the National Museum, Warsaw in Poland . It depicts a sermon on political matters by the Jesuit priest Piotr Skarga , a chief figure of the Counter Reformati
#11 Assumption of the Virgin (Moretto)
Assumption of the Virgin is a 1524-1526 oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia , displayed as the high altarpiece in the Old Cathedral in Brescia . C.1526 painting by Moretto da Brescia This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Italian . (February 2021
#12 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
#13 Composite House for Terre Haute
Composite House for Terre Haute is a public artwork by American artist Lauren Ewing , located in Gilbert Park at 14 1/2 Street and Wabash Ave. ( U.S. Route 40 ) in Terre Haute, Indiana , United States . It is part of the Wabash Valley Art Spaces Outdoor Sculpture Collection. [1] Composite House for
The Self-portrait of Giorgione is a possible self-portrait by the Italian painter Giorgione , now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest . It is not universally accepted as an autograph work but – if it is – it is thought to be based on the c.1509-1510 Self-portrait as David now in the Herzog Anton
The exhibition Battle of the Sexes – Franz von Stuck to Frida Kahlo ( Geschlechterkampf – Franz von Stuck bis Frida Kahlo ) was held from 24 November 2016 to 19 March 2017 at the Städel-Museum in Frankfurt am Main. 140 paintings, films and sculptures reflected the change in gender roles and the perc
#16 Angkor I
Angkor I is an outdoor stainless steel sculpture by Lee Kelly , located at Millennium Plaza Park in Lake Oswego , Oregon , in the United States. The 1994 sculpture stands 14 feet (4.3 m) tall and weighs 1,000 pounds (450 kg) , and was influenced by his visit to Southeast Asia one year prior. In
Robert S. Olpin (August 30, 1940 - November 5, 2005) was an American art historian. He was a professor of Art History at the University of Utah , and the (co-)author of several books. American art historian Robert Spencer Olpin Born August 30, 1940 Palo Alto, California , U.S. Died November 5, 2005
#2 Ann Galbally
Ann Elizabeth Galbally AM FAHA (born 1945) is an Australian art historian and academic. This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources . ( November 2021 ) Australian art historian and academic Ann Galbally AM FAHA Born 1945 (age 76 – 77) Parent(s) John Galbally
Louis Jean Olivier Marie de Boussès de Fourcaud (5 November 1851, Beaumarchés - 19 October 1914, Beaumarchés) was a French art critic and historian. This article includes a list of references , related reading or external links , but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . ( M
#4 Lea Vergine
Lea Vergine , born Lea Buoncristiano (5 March 1936 – 20 October 2020), was an Italian art critic , essayist and curator. Italian art historian (1936–2020) Lea Vergine Born Lea Buoncristiano 5 March 1936 Naples , Kingdom of Italy Died 20 October 2020 (2020-10-20) (aged 84) Milan , Italy Nationality
#5 Brian Allen (art historian)
Brian Francis Allen (born October 1952) [1] [2] is Chairman of the Hazlitt Group that includes the art dealership Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox and Arnold Wiggins and Sons, the leading dealers in historic picture frames. British art historian He was Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studie
Barbara Brackman (born July 6, 1945) is a quilter, quilt historian and author. [1] American art historian For other people with the same name, see Brackman . Barbara has written numerous books on quilting during the Civil War including Facts & Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slave
Gylbert Coker ( Gylbert Gavin Coke r; b. 1944) is an African-American art historian , artist, and curator who has worked to establish Black artists and art in the canon of American art. Coker was an early member of Where We At , a group of Black women artists established in 1971 who created the firs
Christia Mercer is an American philosopher and the Gustave M. Berne Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is known for her work on the history of early modern philosophy , the history of Platonism , and the history of gender . [1] She has received national attention f
Joseph J. Rishel (May 15, 1940 – November 5, 2020) was a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a specialist in the art of Paul Cézanne . [1] [2] [3] He retired in May 2016 and was a curator emeritus of European Painting. American curator (1940–2020) He was married to Anne d'Harnoncourt , Dir
#10 Simon Schama
Sir Simon Michael Schama CBE FBA FRSL ( / ˈ ʃ ɑː m ə / ; born 13 February 1945) is an English historian specialising in art history , Dutch history , Jewish history , and French history . [1] He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University , New York. [2] British histo
#11 Meike Hoffmann
Meike Hoffmann (born 1962) is a German art historian and provenance researcher . This biographical article is written like a résumé . ( December 2019 ) Meike Hoffmann Nationality Germany Alma mater University of Kiel Free University of Berlin Scientific career Fields art historian Institutions F
#12 Douglas Cooper (art historian)
(Arthur William) Douglas Cooper , who also published as Douglas Lord [1] [2] (20 February 1911 – 1 April 1984) [3] was a British art historian , art critic and art collector . He mainly collected Cubist works. He was involved with investigating who had dealt with stolen art during the war. After the
#13 Keshav Malik
Keshav Malik (5 November 1924 – 11 June 2014) was an Indian poet , art and literary critic, arts scholar, and curator. He remained art critic for the Hindustan Times (1960–1972) and The Times of India (1975–2000). He published eighteen volumes of poetry and edited six anthologies of English translat
#14 Hans Schrader
Johann (Hans) Hermann Schrader (15 February 1869, Stolp – 5 November 1948, Berlin ) was a German classical archaeologist and art historian . He was a student at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin , where he was a pupil of Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz . After obtaining his doctorate, he, along
#15 Noma Copley
Noma Copley (born Norma Rathner , July 31, 1916 – February 22, 2006) was an American fine arts jeweler and art collector noted for her contributions to Surrealist practices and activities. From 1953 through 1968, she was married to William Copley and, with him, helped to acquire one of the largest c
#16 Louis Demaison
Louis Demaison (5 November 1852 – 5 May 1937) was a 19th–20th-century French historiographer , archaeologist , and with Henri Jadart , one of the most significant contributors to the nineteenth/twentieth history of the Marne department. French historiographer and archaeologist Louis Demaison Born 5
#17 Carl Haller von Hallerstein
Johann Carl Christoph Wilhelm Joachim Haller von Hallerstein (10 June 1774, Burg Hilpoltstein , Hiltpoltstein , Principality of Bayreuth – 5 November 1817, Ampelakia , Thessaly , Ottoman Greece ) was a German architect, archaeologist and art historian. [1] German architect, archaeologist and art his
#18 Karl Döhring
Karl Siegfried Döhring (often misspelled Döring; 14 August 1879, in Cologne – 1 June 1941, in Darmstadt; also writing under the pseudonym Ravi Ravendro ) was a German architect, art historian and archaeologist. He lived mostly in Siam, now called Thailand .
#19 Grażyna Kulczyk
Grażyna Kulczyk (born 5 November 1950) is a Polish investor, art collector and philanthropist. Grażyna Kulczyk Grażyna Kulczyk in 2012 Born ( 1950-11-05 ) 5 November 1950 Poznań , Poland Alma mater Adam Mickiewicz University Occupation investor, art collector Spouse(s) Jan Kulczyk (div. 2006) Chil
Arthur Jerome Eddy (November 5, 1859 - July 21, 1920 in New York City , New York ) was an American lawyer, author, art collector, and a prominent member of the first generation of American Modern art collectors. His book Cubists and Post-Impressionism was the first American book promoting these new
The Eternal Indian , sometimes called the Black Hawk Statue , is a 48-foot (14.6 m) sculpture by Lorado Taft located in Lowden State Park , near the city of Oregon, Illinois . Dedicated in 1911, the statue is perched over the Rock River on a 77-foot (23.5 m) bluff overlooking the city. United States
The Valiants Memorial ( French : Monument aux Valeureux ) is a military monument located in Ottawa, Ontario , Canada. It commemorates fourteen key figures from the military history of Canada. Dedicated by Governor General Michaëlle Jean on 5 November 2006, [2] the work consists of nine busts and fiv
#3 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
The Bagley Memorial Fountain is a historic fountain in Downtown Detroit , Michigan . It has recently been moved from its long-time location in Campus Martius Park to a new location just down the street in Cadillac Square Park . The fountain was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and
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
#6 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 Tower Hill Memorial is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials in Trinity Square Gardens, on Tower Hill in London , England. The memorials, one for the First World War and one for the Second , commemorate civilian, merchant seafarers and fishermen who were killed as a result of en
The Gorilla sculpture by David Wynne stands beside the Lower Lake in Crystal Palace Park , in Bromley in south-east London. Completed in 1961 and installed in 1962, the black marble sculpture depicts Guy the Gorilla , a western lowland gorilla brought from West Africa to London Zoo in 1947. It becam
Playing the Building was an art installation by David Byrne , ex singer of Talking Heads , and Färgfabriken , an independent art venue in Stockholm . It originally ran from October 8 to November 13, 2005, at Färgfabriken. The concept would later be realized in New York City in the Battery Maritime B
The Cross of Mathilde ( German : Mathildenkreuz ; Latin : Crux Matildae ) is an Ottonian processional cross in the crux gemmata style which has been in Essen in Germany since it was made in the 11th century. It is named after Abbess Mathilde (died in 1011) who is depicted as the donor on a cloisonné
Padrão dos Descobrimentos ( Portuguese pronunciation: [pɐˈdɾɐ̃w̃ duʃ dɨʃkubɾiˈmẽtuʃ] ; lit. Monument of the Discoveries ) is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus river estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém , Lisbon . Located along the river where ships departed to explore an
#12 Windsor, Ontario weeping statue
In 2010 the Canadian city of Windsor was the site of alleged miracles, centring around a statue of the Virgin Mary . [1] 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. ( September 2022
#13 Statue of Queen Elizabeth II, Lagos
A bronze sculpture of Elizabeth II by the Nigerian sculptor Ben Enwonwu was commissioned by the Queen on her visit to Nigeria in 1956, and she sat for Enwonwu in London in 1957. It was completed by Enwonwu in London and exhibited by him at the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition in London in
The Monument of Glory ( Russian : Монумент славы , Monument slavy ) is the focal point of Slavy Square in Samara (former Kuybyshev), Russia , overlooking the Volga river to the north-west. It is dedicated to the Kuybyshev workers of aircraft industry, who were working hard during and following the G
The Unsung Founders Memorial at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a memorial located in McCorkle Place, one of the University's quads. It consists of a black granite tabletop supported by 300 bronze figurines and surrounded by 5 black stone seats. The inscription around the edge of
The Zero Kilometre Stone is a 3 m high limestone sculpture in Budapest , forming a zero sign, with an inscription on its pedestal reading "KM" for kilometres. This stone marks the reference point from which all road distances to Budapest are measured in the country. The reference point had initially
#17 Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv
The Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was a sculpture monument to Vladimir Lenin , located in the Freedom Square , Kharkiv , Ukraine , that was toppled and demolished in 2014. It was the largest monument to Lenin in Ukraine, designed by Alexander Sidorenko after entering an open competition to design the m
#18 Statue of William III, Brixham
A statue of William III , also known as the Prince of Orange statue , stands in Brixham , Devon , England . It commemorates the landing of William of Orange (later to become King William III of England ) and his army at the town on 5 November 1688. The monument has been a Grade II listed building si
#19 Augusta-CSRA Vietnam War Veterans Memorial
The Augusta-Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) Vietnam War Veterans Memorial is a granite and bronze monument placed in Augusta, Georgia , March 29, 2019, to honor the CSRA's 169 Vietnam War dead, three Ex-Prisoners of War (Vietnam), and one former Missing in Action (MIA) as well as the region's 15,
#20 Nathan Bedford Forrest Bust
For the statue in Nashville, see Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue . For the statue in Memphis , see Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument . Nathan Bedford Forrest Bust Artist Loura Jane Herndon Baxendale Completion date 1978 Medium Bronze Dimensions (44 inches ) Weight 3,000 pounds [1] [ better source