langs: 17 октября [ru] / october 17 [en] / 17. oktober [de] / 17 octobre [fr] / 17 ottobre [it] / 17 de octubre [es]
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#1 José Arrue
José Arrue y Valle , usually known as José Arrue (September 1, 1885 – April 6, 1977) was a Spanish Basque painter. Spanish painter Photo of File:José Arrue in 1971 In this Spanish name , the first or paternal surname is Arrue and the second or maternal family name is Valle . Arrue came from an artis
#2 Moira Dryer
Moira Dryer (1957–1992) was a Canadian artist known for her abstract paintings on wood panel. Canadian artist Moira Dryer Born 1957 Toronto , Canada Died May 20, 1993 New York City , U.S. Nationality Canadian Education School of Visual Arts Known for Painting
Robert Coleman Jackson (born October 17, 1964) is an American painter and author based in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania . He is known for his realistic still life paintings. [1] Artist and author For other people named Robert Jackson, see Robert Jackson (disambiguation) . Robert C. Jackson Jackson in
Nathan Corwith Wyeth (April 20, 1870 – August 30, 1963) was an American architect . He is best known for designing the West Wing of the White House , creating the first Oval Office . He designed a large number of structures in Washington, D.C. , including the Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Potoma
Stefan Bakałowicz ( Russian : Степан Бакалович ) (17 October 1857 – 1947) was a Polish painter from Warsaw , famous in the Russian Empire . He was noted for his paintings on the subjects of Ancient Rome . From 1936 he was a member of authorities of Polish Association of Artists – "The Capitol" . His
Mamata Banerjee ( Bengali : Mamata Bandyopadhyay, Bengali pronunciation: [mɔmot̪a bɔnd̪ːopad̪d̪ʱae̯] ; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011, the first woman to hold the office. Havi
Emmanuil Lipkind (1928–2007) was a Russian-Israeli painter. He was born in Kazan , Russia [1] and lived in Moscow beginning in 1964. In 1994, he moved with his wife to Israel. [2] He was a member of the International Association of Art ( UNESCO ) and of the Russian Artist Union. Many of his works ar
#8 Sid Barron
Sidney Arnold Barron (June 13, 1917 in Toronto – April 29, 2006 in Victoria, British Columbia ) was a Canadian editorial cartoonist and artist. During his career as a cartoonist, he drew for the Victoria Times , the Toronto Star , Maclean's , and The Albertan . His cartoons were satirical takes on s
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
#10 Jan van der Vaart (ceramist)
Johannes Jacobus (Jan) van der Vaart ( The Hague , 17 October 1931 – Leiden , 8 November 2000) was an influential Dutch ceramist from the 20th century, known as founder of the abstract-geometric ceramics in the Netherlands. [2] For 17th century painter, see Jan van der Vaart (painter) . Jan van der
#11 Childe Hassam
Frederick Childe Hassam ( / ˈ tʃ aɪ l d ˈ h æ s əm / ; October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman , Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, d
#12 Elioth Gruner
Elioth Lauritz Leganyer Gruner (16 December 1882 – 17 October 1939) was an Australian artist. Elioth Gruner Self-portrait Born Elioth Lauritz Leganyer Gruner ( 1882-12-16 ) 16 December 1882 Gisborne, Poverty Bay , New Zealand Died 17 October 1939 (1939-10-17) (aged 56) Sydney , New South Wales , A
#13 Dorothea Braby
Dorothea Braby (17 October 1909 – 1987) was a British artist. Although she had a long career as a freelance designer producing work for several well-known companies, Braby is best known for the book illustrations she created, particularly those for the Golden Cockerel Press . British artist Dorothea
#14 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
#15 Baron von Lind
Jerry Lind (October 31, 1937 to October 17, 2017) in Duluth, Minnesota is also known as Baron von Lind. He is the son of Baron Johann von Lind. After he left the United States military in 1989, Lind assumed his ancestral name of "von Lind". [1] American artist This article uses bare URLs , which are
Fritz Bamberger (October 17, 1814 – August 13, 1873) was a German painter, primarily of landscapes . German painter Fritz Bamberger The Beach at Estepona (1855)
#17 Gladys Nilsson
Gladys M. Nilsson (born May 6, 1940) is an American artist, one of the original Hairy Who Chicago Imagists , a group of representational artists active during the 1960s and 1970s. She is married to fellow-artist and Hairy Who member Jim Nutt . [1] American painter This article has multiple issues. P
#18 Mikhail Scotti
Mikhail Ivanovich Scotti or Michele Pietro Scotti (Russian: Михаил Иванович Скотти; 29 October 1814, Saint Petersburg - 11 March 1861, Paris ) was a Russian historian, portrait and religious painter of Italian ancestry. Russian artist (1814–1861) Mikhail Scotti Born ( 1814-10-17 ) October 17, 1814 S
#19 Edmund Kara
Edmund Kara (17 October 1925 – 25 May 2001) was an American fashion illustrator and designer, interior designer, and sculptor on the Big Sur coast of California . American artist Edmund Kara Born ( 1925-10-17 ) October 17, 1925 Roselle Park , New Jersey , United States Died May 25, 2001 (2001-05-2
Bai Estelita Tumandan Bantilan (born Labnai Tumndan on October 17, 1940) is a Filipino textile weaver from the municipality of Malapatan , Sarangani . She is credited with creating "some of the biggest, most subtly beautiful mats to be seen anywhere in Southeast Asia." [1] She was given the National
#1 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
#2 National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design ( Norwegian : Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design ), also known as the National Museum , in Oslo is a Norwegian state-owned museum. [1] National Museum in Oslo This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding arti
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 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery ( BM&AG ) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham , England . It has a collection of international importance covering fine art , ceramics , metalwork , jewellery , natural history , archaeology , ethnography , local history and industrial history . [3] Museum and
La Colonie was an independent cultural venue located in a former textile factory in the 10th arrondissement of Paris , near the Gare du Nord train station. [1] [2] It was founded by French artist Kader Attia and restaurateur Zico Selloum in 2016. [3] It closed in March 2020 as a result of the COVID-
The Design Museum of Chicago or "DMoC" (formerly Chicago Design Museum) is a museum of design in the Chicago loop . It was founded by Tanner Woodford in 2012 as a pop-up museum , [1] and hosted exhibitions in different venues around Chicago in 2012 and 2013. [2] [3] [4] Following a successful Kickst
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
#9 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
#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]
The Museo Picasso Málaga is a museum in Málaga , Andalusia , Spain , the city where artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born. [2] It opened in 2003 in the Buenavista Palace , and has 285 works donated by members of Picasso's family. [2] In 2009, the Fundación Paul, Christine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso that ow
#12 Japanese American National Museum
The Japanese American National Museum ( 全米日系人博物館 , Zenbei Nikkeijin Hakubutsukan ) is located in Los Angeles, California , and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans . Founded in 1992, it is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown. The museum is an affiliate wit
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
#14 Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education at New York University . ISAW's mission is to cultivate comparative, connective investigations of the ancient world from the western Mediterranean to China . [1] Areas of specia
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,
#16 McSwain Theatre
The McSwain Theatre is a 560-seat former cinema , and present day theater and music venue , located in Ada , Pontotoc County , Oklahoma . McSwain Theatre Address 130 W. Main Street Ada , Pontotoc County , Oklahoma Owner Chickasaw Nation Capacity 574 Current use theater , music venue , art gallery Co
#17 Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is located on the fourth floor of the Brooklyn Museum , New York City , United States.
#18 Åland Museum
The Cultural History Museum of Åland and Åland Islands Art Museum are two museums under the same roof in Mariehamn in Åland ( Finland ). The building houses even other collections and staff of Ålands Museum , which was formerly the name of the Cultural History Museum, nowadays a wider roof organizat
#19 The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop
The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop (1973–2010) was an Australian photography gallery established in South Yarra , a suburb of Melbourne , and which ran almost continuously for nearly forty years. Its representation, in the 1970s and 1980s, of contemporary and mid-century, mostly American and so
#20 Belgrave St Ives
Belgrave St Ives is a commercial art gallery, [1] specialising in modern British and contemporary art in St Ives , Cornwall, southwest England. [2] It gives emphasis to work produced in Cornwall from the 1930s onwards, when the town of St Ives became an internationally important modernist artistic c
Our Lady of Šiluva ( Our Lady of the Pine Woods ) [1] is Roman Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary in Šiluva , Lithuania . A shrine of the same name has been built and is dedicated to her. The icon is highly venerated in Lithuania and is often called "Lithuania's greatest treasure". [2] Our Lady of Šil
La Femme au Cheval (also known as Woman with Horse , L'Écuyère and Kvinde med hest ) is a large oil painting created toward the end of 1911, early 1912, by the French artist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). The work was exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants (20 March–16 May) in 1912 and the Sa
#3 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
L'Oiseau bleu (also known as The Blue Bird and Der Blaue Vogel ) is a large oil painting created in 1912–1913 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956); considered by Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon as a founder of Cubism , along with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso . L'Oi
#5 Saint John the Baptist (Leonardo)
Saint John the Baptist is a High Renaissance oil painting on walnut wood by Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre , Paris . Likely to have been completed between 1513 and 1516, it is believed to be his final painting. Its original size was 69 by 57 centimetres (27 in × 22 in) . Painting by Leonardo
#6 Murasaki Shikibu Nikki Emaki
The Murasaki Shikibu Nikki Emaki ( 紫式部日記絵巻 ) is a mid-13th century emaki (Japanese picture scroll) inspired by the private diary ( nikki ) of Murasaki Shikibu , lady-in-waiting at the 10th–11th century Heian court and author of The Tale of Genji . This emaki belongs to the classical style of Japanes
#7 Statue of Benito Juárez (Washington, D.C.)
Benito Juárez is the title of a work of art by Enrique Alciati , located at the intersection of Virginia Avenue and New Hampshire Avenue in Washington, District of Columbia , United States. The statue is a part of the city's Statues of the Liberators collection and is a tribute to former president o
#8 P. S. Krøyer's paintings of Marie
Peder Severin Krøyer painted various portraits of his wife, Marie Krøyer née Triepcke, a fellow Danish artist who was said to be one of the most beautiful women in Copenhagen . Norwegian-born Peder had met and painted Marie in Copenhagen but fell in love with her when they met in Paris in 1889. Afte
East Gate/West Gate , a public sculpture by Sasson Soffer , is located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, which is near downtown Indianapolis , Indiana . This sculpture is on loan from the Indianapolis Museum of Art and was installed on campus on March 22, 2009. It was
Les Joueurs de football , also referred to as Football Players , is a 1912–13 painting by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes . The work was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants , Paris, March–May 1913 (no. 1293). September through December 1913 the painting was exhibited at Ers
#11 The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope ( Le lion ayant faim se jette sur l'antilope ) is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1905. Following Scouts Attacked by a Tiger the previous year, The Hungry Lion was the second jungle painting to mark Rousseau's return to this g
#12 Portrait of a Young Gentleman
Portrait of a Young Gentleman is a c. 1635 painting attributed to the Dutch painter Rembrandt . The painting has not yet been catalogued as by Rembrandt, but was sold as "circle of Rembrandt" by Christie's in London for GBP 137,000 (approximately $185,000). [1] Portrait of a gentleman, half-length,
Les Baigneuses (also known as The Bathers ) is a large oil painting created at the outset of 1912 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes (1881–1953). It was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris during the spring of 1912; the Salon de la Société Normande de Peinture Mode
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ( The Young Ladies of Avignon , originally titled The Brothel of Avignon ) [2] is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso . The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art , portrays five nude female prostitutes in a b
#15 Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger
Robert Dundas of Arniston , the younger, FRSE (18 July 1713 – 13 December 1787) was a Scottish judge. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1742 to 1746, as Lord Advocate from 1754 to 1760, and as Member of Parliament for Midlothian from 1754 to 1761. He was Lord President of the Court of
#16 Surrender of General Burgoyne
The Surrender of General Burgoyne is an oil painting by John Trumbull . The painting was completed in 1821, and hangs in the rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, D. C. Painting by John Trumbull This article is about John Trumbull 's painting. For details on General Burgoyne's surrende
#17 Woman with a Hat
Woman with a Hat (French: La femme au chapeau ) is a painting by Henri Matisse . An oil on canvas, it depicts Matisse's wife, Amelie. [1] It was painted in 1905 and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne during the fall of the same year, along with works by André Derain , Maurice de Vlaminck and several o
Aurora and Cephalus is a 1733 painting by François Boucher , signed by the artist and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy . [1] It shows Cephalus and Aurora (the Roman form of Eos ) from Book VII of Ovid 's Metamorphoses . 1733 painting by François Boucher Aurora and Cephalus (1733) by François
#19 List of works by Thomas Eakins
This is a list of professionally authenticated paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Thomas Eakins (1844–1916). As there is no catalogue raisonné of Eakins' works, [1] this is an aggregation of existing published catalogs. Photograph of Thomas Eakins c. 1882
Sentimental Music is a circa 1913 painting by Arthur Dove . It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . [1] It is not currently on display. Painting by Arthur Dove Sentimental Music Artist Arthur Dove Year c. 1913 Dimensions 54.9 cm (21.6 in) × 45.7 cm (18.0 in) Location
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
Angelo Marino (April 30, 1956 – October 10, 2018) was an Italian art dealer and curator. He was the first Italian gallery owner to turn his gallery, dirartecontemporanea, into a virtual exhibition space (dirartecontemporanea 2.0). Italian art dealer and curator Angelo Marino, 2013
Josine Ianco-Starrels (October 17, 1926 – April 8, 2019) was a Romanian-born American art curator who worked as a museum director in Los Angeles , California . Romanian-born American art curator (1926–2019) Josine Ianco-Starrels Born ( 1926-10-17 ) October 17, 1926 Bucharest , Romania Died April 8,
#4 Jules Comte
Jules Victor Abel Eugène Jean Comte (17 October 1846, Paris - 14 December 1912, Paris) was a French art historian and government official. This article includes a list of references , related reading or external links , but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . ( April 2022
#5 Leo Schidlof
Leo R. Schidlof (1886–October 17, 1966 in London) was an Austrian art dealer, art expert and collector. Austrian art dealer
Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969) was an American art historian. He was the Director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University from 1909 to 1944. American art historian Edward W. Forbes Born Edward Waldo Forbes July 16, 1873 Naushon Island , Dukes County , Massachusetts , U.S. Died March 11, 1969 (
Sharada Srinivasan (born 16 January 1966) [1] is an archaeologist specializing in the scientific study of art, archaeology, archaemetallurgy and culture. She is associated with the National Institute of Advanced Studies , Bangalore , India , [2] and an Honorary University Fellow at the University of
Ranjit Hoskote (born 29 March 1969) is an Indian poet, art critic , cultural theorist and independent curator . He has been honoured by the Sahitya Akademi , India's National Academy of Letters, with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation . Ranjit Hosk
Peter H. Brieger (30 June 1898, Breslau – 17 October 1983, Toronto ) was a German art historian who emigrated to Canada in 1936 to escape persecution from the Nazi regime because of his Jewish family background. He taught at the University of Toronto from 1936 to 1969, was Head of the Department of
#10 Alison Kelly (art historian)
Avery Alison Kelly , FSA , (17 October 1913 – 15 August 2016) was an English art historian who was an authority on Coade stone and Wedgwood pottery . During the Second World War she designed camouflage for the home front and later she lectured in London on the fine arts and wrote several books on We
#11 Royal Cortissoz
Royal Cortissoz ( / k ɔːr ˈ t iː z ə s / ; [1] February 10, 1869 – October 17, 1948) was an American art historian and, from 1891 until his death, the art critic for the New York Herald Tribune . During his tenure at the newspaper, he consistently championed traditionalism and decried modernism . [2
#12 Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet
Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet MP KT , of Pollok FRSE DCL LLD (8 March 1818 – 15 January 1878), was a Scottish historical writer, art historian and politician . 19th-century Scottish writer and politician Sir William Stirling-Maxwell Bt MP KT FRSE DCL Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, c. 18
#13 Stefan Weber (Orientalist)
Stefan Weber (born 17 October 1967, in Aachen ) is a German Orientalist and director of the Museum of Islamic Art ( Museum für Islamische Kunst ) at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin , Germany. Previously, he was assistant professor of material history at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisati
#14 Philippe Daverio
Philippe Daverio (17 October 1949 – 2 September 2020) was an Italian art historian , gallerist, teacher, writer, author, politician, and television personality. [1] [2] [3] Italian art historian (1949–2020) Philippe Daverio Daverio in 2010 in Venice Born ( 1949-10-17 ) 17 October 1949 Mulhouse , Fra
#15 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
#16 Doran H. Ross
Doran H. Ross (1947-2020) was an African art scholar, author, and museum director and curator. Ross was a renowned Ghanaian arts scholar who spent 20 years at the Fowler Museum at UCLA managing or curating nearly 40 African and African American exhibitions shown at 30 venues across the country. His
Leslie Anne Anderson is a Cuban-American [1] museum curator and art historian, notable for her scholarship and exhibitions of nineteenth-century European, American, and regional art. Cuban-American museum curator and art historian This article is an orphan , as no other articles link to it . Please
#18 Natalia Polenova
Natalia Polenova (born July 12, 1975, Moscow ) is a Russian museum expert and the director of the State Memorial of History, Art and Natural Museum Reserve - Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov since 2011. She is an expert on Russian painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a specialist of Frenc
#19 Bernard Gavoty
Bernard Georges-Marie Gavoty (2 April 1908 – 24 October 1981) was a 20th-century French organist , musicologist , music critic , and talk show host.
#20 Jean Fisher
Jean Fisher (17 October 1942 – 12 December 2016) was a UK -based art critic and writer. Her research explored the intertwined legacies of colonialism and the emergent conflicts of globalization in Ireland, Native America, the Black Atlantic and more recently Palestine. [1] She studied zoology and fi
#1 Statue of Queen Victoria, Chester
The Statue of Queen Victoria stands in front of Chester Crown Court in the forecourt of Chester Castle , Chester , Cheshire , England. It was unveiled in 1903, the sculptor was Frederick William Pomeroy , and the statue is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II
#2 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 British grave of the Unknown Warrior (often known as 'The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior') holds an unidentified member of the British armed forces killed on a European battlefield during the First World War . [1] He was given a state funeral and buried in Westminster Abbey , London on 11 November
#4 Monument to the Unknown Hero
The Monument to the Unknown Hero ( Serbian : Споменик Незнаном јунаку , romanized : Spomenik Neznanom junaku ) is a World War I memorial located atop Mount Avala , south-east of Belgrade , Serbia , and designed by the sculptor Ivan Meštrović . [1] The memorial was built in 1934-1938 [1] on the pla
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
La Délivrance is a 1914 bronze statue by the French sculptor Émile Oscar Guillaume [ fr ] (1867–1942). The statue was created as a celebration of the First Battle of the Marne , when the German army was stopped before capturing Paris in August 1914. La Délivrance in Finchley, 2006 A 4.9m high exam
#7 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
#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 John Hunt Morgan Memorial in Lexington , Kentucky, is a monument created during the Jim Crow era, as a tribute to Confederate General John Hunt Morgan , who was from Lexington and is buried in Lexington Cemetery . The monument was originally situated on the Courthouse Lawn at the junction of Nor
#10 Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks is a weathering steel sculpture by Claes Oldenburg . It is located at Morse College Courtyard, at Yale University , in New Haven, Connecticut. [2] [3] Sculpture by Claes Oldenburg Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks Artist Claes Oldenburg Year 1969 T
#11 Bench of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
The Monumento Encuentro ( lit. transl. Monument Encounter ) refers to two bronze statues seated on a bench in Colonia Tabacalera , Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City . Otherwise known as the bench of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and the statues of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara , the artwork features sitting
#12 Alyosha Monument, Murmansk
To the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War ( Russian : Защитникам Советского Заполярья в годы Великой Отечественной войны ), commonly called Alyosha ( Russian : 'Алёша' ; Alyosha is an affectionate diminutive form of the name Aleksey) is a monument in Murmansk, Russia to So
#13 Manneken Pis
Manneken Pis ( Dutch: [ˌmɑnəkə(m) ˈpɪs] ( listen ) ; Dutch for ' Little Pissing Man ' ) is a landmark [1] 55.5 cm (21.9 in) [lower-alpha 1] bronze fountain sculpture in central Brussels , Belgium, depicting a puer mingens ; a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. Though its exi
#14 Equestrian statue of Charles Devens
The equestrian statue of Charles Devens (also known as the Worcester County Devens Memorial Statue ) [2] is a public monument in Worcester , Massachusetts , United States . Located in front of the old Worcester County Courthouse in the Institutional District , the equestrian statue honors Charles De
#15 Dewey Cannon
The Dewey Cannon is an antique Spanish bronze cannon. Currently, it is a Michigan registered historic site located in Three Oaks in the U.S. state of Michigan . [1] Originally emplaced on the island of Corregidor , the cannon was captured by the United States Navy in 1898 after the Battle of Manila
#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 Frederic Chopin Monument, Warsaw
The Frederic Chopin Monument in Warsaw ( Polish : Pomnik Fryderyka Chopina w Warszawie ) is a large bronze statue of Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) that now stands in the upper part of Warsaw 's Royal Baths Park (also known as Łazienki Park), adjacent to Aleje Ujazdowskie ( Ujazdów Avenue ). Frederic C
#18 Statue of Hans Christian Heg
Hans Christian Heg is a statue by Paul Fjelde that was cast in 1925 and installed at the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison , Wisconsin , United States in 1926. The bronze statue depicting the Union soldier and abolitionist Hans Christian Heg was torn down by rioters, decapitated and thrown
#19 John C. Breckinridge Memorial
The John C. Breckinridge Memorial , originally on the courthouse lawn of Lexington, Kentucky , was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS . It commemorates John C. Breckinridge , who was born and died in Lexington. He w
#20 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington)
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a historic monument dedicated to deceased U.S. service members whose remains have not been identified. It is located in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia , United States. The World War I "Unknown" is a recipient of the Medal of Honor , the Victoria Cross , an