langs: 1 сентября [ru] / september 1 [en] / 1. september [de] / 1er septembre [fr] / 1º settembre [it] / 1 de septiembre [es]
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Irving Petlin (December 17, 1934 – September 1, 2018) was an American artist and painter renowned for his mastery of the pastel medium and collaborations with other artists (including Mark di Suvero and Leon Golub ) and for his work in the "series form" [1] in which he employed the raw materials of
#2 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
#3 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
Olajumoke Olufunmilola Adenowo (born 16 October 1968) is a Nigerian architect . She started her own architecture and interior design firm AD Consulting in 1994. Nigerian architect and author This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn h
#5 Amy Walker
Amy Walker is an American actress , director, singer , and artist . [2] American actor-singer 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 contains content that is written lik
#6 Georges Kars
Georges Kars ( Georges Karpeles or Georg Karpeles - Jiří Karpeles ) (2 May 1880, [1] [2] other sources 1882 [3] – 5 February 1945 [4] ) was a Czech painter known for his landscapes and nude paintings. Czech painter This article uses bare URLs , which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot . (
Isobel Wylie Hutchison FRGS (30 May 1889 – 20 February 1982) was a Scottish Arctic traveller, filmmaker and botanist . [1] Hutchison published poetry, books describing her travels to Iceland , Greenland , Alaska , and the Aleutian Islands , and articles in National Geographic and other magazines. Sh
Charles West Cope RA (28 July 1811, in Leeds – 21 August 1890, in Bournemouth ) was an English, Victorian era painter of genre and history scenes, and an etcher . He was responsible for painting several frescos in the House of Lords in London. English painter and etcher Charles West Cope, self-portr
#9 Ghostshrimp
Daniel James Bandit (born Daniel Rogers James ; [1] August 14, 1980), better known as Ghostshrimp , is an American graphic artist , animator and illustrator. His illustration work has appeared in The New York Times , The New Yorker , and on many album covers, including the MF DOOM and Bishop Nehru c
#10 David R. Morrison (author)
David Morrison (4 August 1941 – 1 September 2012) was a Scottish author, editor and painter. For the American mathematician and physicist, see David R. Morrison (mathematician) . The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies . ( September 2011 )
#11 Dana Tiger
Dana Tiger (born 1961) is a Muscogee artist of Seminole and Cherokee descent from Oklahoma. Her artwork focuses on portrayals of strong women. She uses art as a medium for activism and raising awareness. Tiger was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 2001. Dana Tiger Born Dana Irene Ti
#12 Terry Frost
Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn , Cornwall . [1] Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in England. He became a leading exponent of abstract art and
#13 Aviva Uri
Aviva Uri ( Hebrew : אביבה אורי; March 12, 1922 – September 1, 1989) was an Israeli painter. [1] Israeli painter Aviva Uri Born ( 1922-03-12 ) March 12, 1922 Safad , Gaillee, British Palestine Died September 1, 1989 (1989-09-01) (aged 67) Tel Aviv , Israel Nationality Israeli , Jewish Known for
#14 Noel Rockmore
Noel Rockmore (December 15, 1928 – February 19, 1995) was born Noel Montgomery Davis to his mother, Gladys Rockmore Davis , and his father, Floyd Davis , in New York City . [1] Rockmore was an American painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He claims to have produced more than 15,000 works of art in hi
#15 Samara Golden
Samara Golden (born 1973) is an American artist based in Los Angeles . American artist based in Los Angeles (born 1973) Samara Golden Born 1973 (age 48 – 49) Ann Arbor, Michigan Style Installation art Website samaragolden .com
#16 Marvin Lipofsky
Marvin Bentley Lipofsky (September 1, 1938 – January 15, 2016) was an American glass artist . He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed in a program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 and spring 1963. He was a central figure in the dissemin
#17 Sally Haley
Sally Haley (June 29, 1908 – September 1, 2007) was an American painter . Her career spanned much of the 20th century and she is credited for helping to expand the emerging art scene in Portland, Oregon during the middle of the century. [1] Much of her work was an application of egg tempera , a tech
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
#19 Mikhail Vrubel
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel ( Russian : Михаил Александрович Врубель ; March 17, 1856 – April 14, 1910, all n.s. ) was a Russian painter , draughtsman , and sculptor. A prolific and innovative master in various media such as painting, drawing, decorative sculpture, and theatrical art, Vrubel is
Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Melnychenko (born 25 February 1932, Kyiv ) — Ukrainian artist, sculptor, architect, Honored Artist of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, member of the All-Ukrainian Creative Union "Congress of Writers of Ukraine", honorary member of the National Uni
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art ( Danish : ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst ) is a private non-for-profit charity, state authorised, contemporary art museum in Ishøj near Copenhagen , the capital of Denmark . [1] The museum is amongst Denmark's major contemporary and modern art ventures, encompassing signi
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 Pah Homestead is a historic home located in the suburb of Hillsborough in Auckland, New Zealand . It is owned by the Auckland Council , and is currently used as an art gallery, housing the James Wallace Art Trust's collection of New Zealand art . Since opening in August 2010, the gallery has att
#4 Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ( Cooper Union [10] ) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City . Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in France. [11] [12] The school was built on a radical
#5 Korean Cultural Center New York
The Korean Cultural Center New York (KCCNY) (Korean: 뉴욕한국문화원), a branch of the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of the Republic of South Korea , is a government institution supported by the Korean Consulate General. Inaugurated in December 1979, KCCNY works to establish and promote Korean cu
The Kruizenga Art Museum (KAM) is a 15,000 square feet (1,400 m 2 ) college art museum located in Holland, Michigan . Situated within the heart of the Hope College campus; the museum was designed to serve as an educational resource for both the campus community and the other colleges and schools i
#7 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
#8 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City , Missouri , known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art . Art museum in Kansas City, Missouri Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Established 19
The Künstlerhaus in Vienna’s 1st district has accommodated the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung since 1868. It is located in the Ringstrassenzone in between Akademiestraße, Bösendorferstraße and Musikvereinsplatz. Art museum in Austria Not to be confused with KunstHausWien or Kunsthalle Wien . The Künstlerh
#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 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 Olga Viso
Olga Viso (born 1966) is a Cuban American curator of modern and contemporary art and a museum director based at Arizona State University 's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in Tempe, Arizona. [1] She served as executive director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 2007
#13 Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires ( Spanish : Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires ), also known as MACBA is an art museum located in San Telmo , Argentina . Art museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires Established September 1, 2012 ; 9 years
#14 Boston Athenæum
The Boston Athenaeum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States. It is also one of a number of membership libraries , [2] for which patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use Athenaeum services. The institution was founded in 1807 by the Anthology Club of Boston , Massachusett
#15 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
The Palace of Versailles ( / v ɛər ˈ s aɪ , v ɜːr ˈ s aɪ / vair- SY , vur- SY ; [1] French : Château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ( listen ) ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles , about 12 miles (19 km) west of Paris , France. The palace is owned by the F
#17 Mougins Museum of Classical Art
The MACM , the Mougins Museum of Classical Art (Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins) is an art museum located in the village of Mougins , in the Alpes-Maritimes department, France. It is 30 minutes from Nice airport and 15 minutes from the centre of Cannes . This article needs additional citations for
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,
#19 Listasavn Føroya
Listasavn Føroya (National Gallery of the Faroe Islands) is an art museum in Tórshavn , Faroe Islands for mostly permanent exhibits of Faroese arts. Art museum in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands City map detail of Tórshavn, the museum is marked red. Established in 1989, it consists of a gallery called Lista
#20 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen is a fine arts museum in the French city of Caen , founded at the start of the 19th century and rebuilt in 1971 within the ducal château . Art museum in Château de Caen Musée des beaux-arts de Caen Established 1801 Location Château de Caen Coordinates 49.1861004°N 0.
Fountain of Time , or simply Time , is a sculpture by Lorado Taft , measuring 126 feet 10 inches (38.66 m) in length, situated at the western edge of the Midway Plaisance within Washington Park in Chicago , Illinois, in the United States. [1] The sculpture is inspired by Henry Austin Dobson 's
The Tornabuoni Chapel (Italian: Cappella Tornabuoni ) is the main chapel (or chancel ) in the church of Santa Maria Novella , Florence , Italy . It is famous for the extensive and well-preserved fresco cycle on its walls, one of the most complete in the city, which was created by Domenico Ghirlandai
#3 Adoration of the Magi (Veronese)
The Adoration of the Magi by the Venetian artist Paolo Veronese is a large oil painting on canvas dated to 1573 which has been in the National Gallery, London since 1855, shortly after it was sold by the Venetian church for which it was commissioned. It shows the common subject in the Nativity art o
#4 Metempsychosis (Yokoyama Taikan)
Metempsychosis ( 生々流転 , Seisei ruten ) , alternatively translated as The Wheel of Life , is a painting by Japanese Nihonga artist Yokoyama Taikan . First displayed at the tenth Inten exhibition in 1923, it forms part of the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and has been designat
#5 Sessão do Conselho de Estado
Sessão do Conselho de Estado (Session of the State Council) is an artwork of the genre historical painting made by Georgina de Albuquerque in 1922. It portrays the session of 2 September 1822 of the State Council of Brazil , preceding Brazilian independence . The artwork is part of the collection on
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough , now in the National Gallery, London . Today it is one of his most famous works, but it remained in the family of the sitters until 1960 and was very little known before it appeared in an exhibition in Ipswich in 1
#7 The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew (Rubens)
The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew is an oil on canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens , which since 1989 has been in the collection of the Fundación Carlos de Amberes , Madrid. It was painted in 1639, the year before the artist's death. Painting by Peter Paul Rubens The work was a commission from Jan van
#8 The Entombment of Christ (Caravaggio)
Caravaggio created one of his most admired altarpieces, The Entombment of Christ , in 1603–1604 for the second chapel on the right in Santa Maria in Vallicella (the Chiesa Nuova ), a church built for the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri . [1] A copy of the painting is now in the chapel, and the original
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
#10 USS Maine National Monument
The USS Maine National Monument is an outdoor monument located at the Merchants' Gate entrance to Central Park , at Columbus Circle , in Manhattan , New York City . It was cast on September 1, 1912 and dedicated on May 30, 1913 to the men killed aboard USS Maine (ACR-1) when the ship exploded in
#11 Goethe–Schiller Monument (Milwaukee)
The Goethe–Schiller Monument is a public artwork by German artist Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel located in Washington Park , which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , United States. The bronze sculpture from 1908 depicts two men, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich von Schiller , one holding a laur
Les fleurs dédaignées is a 1925 painting by Australian artist Hilda Rix Nicholas . 1925 painting by Hilda Rix Nicholas Les fleurs dédaignées The despised flowers Artist Hilda Rix Nicholas Year 1925 ( 1925 ) Type Oil paint on canvas Dimensions 198 cm × 128 cm (78 in × 50 in) Location Na
#13 Warsaw Uprising Memorial (Hamburg)
The Warsaw Uprising Memorial in memory of the deportees of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising stands in the park of the memorial to the victims of the Neuengamme Nazi concentration camp at Hamburg . Hamburg, Memorial of Neuengamme concentration camp: memorial area, memorial stone for the victims of the 1944 W
#14 Madonna and Child (Umlauf)
Madonna and Child is a series of sculptures by Charles Umlauf . Versions are found in the collections of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum ( Austin, Texas ) [1] and the Dallas Museum of Art . [2] One limestone sculpture is installed outside the Lois Perkins Chapel on the Southwestern University
Black Hole Horizon is a kinetic sculpture created by Swiss-German artist Thom Kubli between the years 2012 and 2015. Kinetic sculpture This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines . ( March 2021 ) Black Hole Horizon Artist Thom Kubli Type Installation art
Our Lady of Guadalupe ( Spanish : Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe ), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe ( Spanish : Virgen de Guadalupe ), is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus associated with a series of five Marian apparitions , which are believed to have occurred in December 1531, and a ven
#17 The Humane Nurse
The Humane Nurse ( Danish : Den Humane Sygeplejerske) is a monument to Danish nurses standing in front of Bispebjerg Hospital , facing its old main entrance and with Lersø Park as a backdrop, in the Bispebjerg district of Copenhagen , Denmark . It was unveiled in 1941 and depicts a uniformed nurse h
Courtyard with an Arbour (1658–1660) 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. It was sold in 1992 for almost seven million dollars. [1] Courtyard with an Arbour Artist Pieter de Hooch Year 1
#19 The Standard Bearer (Rembrandt, 1636)
The Standard Bearer is a three-quarter-length self-portrait by Rembrandt formerly in the Paris collection of Elie de Rothschild , and purchased by the Rijksmuseum for 175 million euros with assistance from the Dutch state and Vereniging Rembrandt in 2021. It was painted on the occasion of the artist
Gertrude Bass Warner (May 14, 1863 – July 29, 1951) was an American twentieth-century art collector , with particular interests in Asian art , religious artifacts, daily-life textiles, ceramics, paintings, and photographs. She lived, traveled, and collected art in East Asia from 1904 to 1938. In 192
Werner Weisbach (1 September 1873, in Berlin – 9 April 1953, in Basel ) was a German-Swiss art historian . German-Swiss art historian Werner Weisbach Born ( 1873-09-01 ) September 1, 1873 Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire Died April 9, 1953 (1953-04-09) (aged 79) Basel , Switzerland Occu
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ( / d i ˈ æ ɡ ɪ l ɛ f / dee- AG -il-ef ; Russian : Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев , IPA: [sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf] ; 31 March [ O.S. 19 March ] 1872 – 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev , was a Russian art critic , patron
#4 Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg
Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg (28 June 1890 in Vienna – 1 September 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an Austrian-German archaeologist and art historian . He was the husband of writer Marie Luise Kaschnitz . Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg Born ( 1890-06-28 ) June 28, 1890 Vienna , Austria-Hungary Died Se
Scarlat A. Cantacuzino (June 6, 1874 – August 8, 1949) was a Romanian poet, essayist and diplomat.
Charlotte Klonk is a German art historian . [1] Klonk is most notable for her work on English landscape art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, as well as for her work on museum interiors, particularly the white cube. She is currently a professor of art history at the Humboldt Unive
#7 Thea Exley
Thea Melvie Exley (2 September 1923 – 29 January 2007) [1] was an Australian archivist and art historian, and the first woman to head a regional office of the Australian Commonwealth Archives Office (now the National Archives of Australia ). She was also its first national Senior Archivist Reference
#8 James Panero
James S. Panero (born December 15, 1975) is an American cultural critic and the executive editor of The New Criterion , a conservative culture journal. [1] [2] James Panero Born ( 1975-12-15 ) December 15, 1975 (age 46) New York City , United States Alma mater Dartmouth College Occupation Art cr
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
Nina Howell Starr (1903–2000) was an American photographer, art historian , and art dealer . [1] She is known for her influence in the career of artist Minnie Evans , and her photo-documentation of American roadside attractions and folk art culture. [2] [3] Nina Howell Starr Born Cornelia Margaret H
Earl Alexander Powell III (born October 24, 1943), [2] nicknamed Rusty Powell , is an American art historian and museum director. From 1980 to 1992, he was Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art . He was appointed Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. , in September 1
Michaël Henricus Gertrudis (Michiel) van Kempen (born 4 April 1957) is a Dutch writer, art historian and literary critic. He has written novels , short stories , essays , travel literature and scenarios . He was the compiler of a huge range of anthologies of Dutch-Caribbean literature ( Suriname , N
#13 Evelyn Welch
Evelyn Kathleen Welch MBE ( née Samuels ; born 1959) is an American-English scholar of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period , and Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol. Prior to her role as Vice Chancellor, Evelyn was the professor of Renaissance Studies, Provost, and Senior Vice President
#14 Doris Duke
Doris Duke (November 22, 1912 – October 28, 1993) was an American billionaire tobacco heiress, philanthropist, art collector, horticulturalist , and socialite. She was often called "the richest girl in the world". [1] Her great wealth, luxurious lifestyle, and love life attracted significant press c
#15 Catriona Moore
Catriona Moore (born 1956) is an Australian art historian, art theorist and academic. [1] The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies . ( March 2021 ) Australian art historian This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the sub
Manuel Bartolomé Cossío (22 February 1857 – 2 September 1935) was a Spanish art historian and Krausist teacher. Born in Haro , La Rioja, he entered the Institución Libre de Enseñanza , where he was godson and favourite pupil of Francisco Giner de los Ríos as well as his inseparable companion and suc
#17 Ion Călugăru
Ion Călugăru ( Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon kəˈluɡəru] ; born Ștrul Leiba Croitoru , [1] also known as Buium sin Strul-Leiba Croitoru , [2] B. Croitoru ; [3] [4] [5] February 14, 1902 – May 22, 1956) was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and critic. As a figure on Romania's mode
Anatole de Courde de Montaiglon (28 November 1824 – 1 September 1895) was a 19th-century French librarian and art historian . French librarian and art historian Anatole de Montaiglon Bust of Montaiglon by Sicard on his grave at cimetière du Père-Lachaise . Born 28 November 1824 Paris Died 1 October
#19 Andrea Grover
Andrea Grover (born July 1970) [1] is an American curator, artist, and writer. She founded the Aurora Picture Show film center in her front room in 1998. American curator, artist, and writer (born 1970) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . ( February 2014 )
Charles Rufus Morey (20 November 1877 – 28 August 1955 [1] ) was an American art historian, professor, and chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University from 1924 to 1945. He is best known for his expertise in medieval art and for founding the Index of Christian Art (now
#1 Gateway Arch
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri , United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch , [5] it is the world's tallest arch [4] and Missouri's tallest accessible building . Some sources consider it the tallest human-ma
The Spring Temple Buddha ( Chinese : 中原大佛 and simplified Chinese : 鲁山大佛 ; traditional Chinese : 魯山大佛 ) is a colossal statue depicting Vairocana Buddha located in the Zhaocun township of Lushan County, Henan , China , built from 1997 to 2008. It is located within the Fodushan Scenic Area , close to N
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
The Bambino Gesu of Arenzano locally known as Il Grande Piccinino (Lit: Child Jesus of Arenzano, the Great Little Child) is a Roman Catholic devotional image depicting the Child Jesus venerated by the Genoese faithful. [1] This article needs additional citations for verification . ( January 2016 ) B
John Harvard is a sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French in Harvard Yard , Cambridge, Massachu setts honoring clergyman John Harvard (1607–1638), whose deathbed [2] bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" recently undertaken by the Massachu setts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it
#6 Values of Civilization (Doyle)
The Values of Civilization sculpture group is public art by American artist Alexander Doyle . The allegorical sculpture group is located on the third floor in the rotunda of the Indiana State House , which is in Indianapolis , Indiana , United States. The heroic-sized sculptures, representing Agricu
#7 Monument to Dositej Obradović
The monument to Dositej Obradović is located in the Academy Park , Belgrade , Serbia. [1] Obradović was Serbian writer, educator and the reformer from the revolutionary period of the national awakening and rebirth. Also in the park are monuments of the prominent Serbian scientists Josif Pančić and J
#8 Drinking fountains in Philadelphia
Public drinking fountains in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States, have been built and used since the 19th century. Various reform-minded organizations in the city supported public drinking fountains as street furniture for different but overlapping reasons. One was the general promotion of pu
The Monument of Zalongo is a 1961 monumental sculpture by George Zongolopoulos , commemorating the Dance of Zalongo , a mass suicide of women and children in 1803. [1] It is located at 700 meters altitude on Mount Zalongo , near Preveza , Greece, from which it is visible. The closest village is Kama
Theodore Roosevelt Island is an 88.5-acre (358,000 m 2 ) island and national memorial located in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. [1] [2] During the Civil War , it was used as a training camp for the United States Colored Troops . The island was given to the federal government by the Theodore
#11 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is a national memorial located in West Potomac Park next to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. , United States. [1] It covers four acres (1.6 ha) and includes the Stone of Hope , a granite statue of Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. carved
#12 Saint-Gaudens double eagle
The Saint-Gaudens double eagle is a twenty- dollar gold coin , or double eagle , produced by the United States Mint from 1907 to 1933. The coin is named after its designer, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens , who designed the obverse and reverse . It is considered by many to be the most beautiful
#13 Sendai Daikannon
Sendai Daikannon ( 仙台大観音 ), officially known as the Sendai Tendou Byakue Daikannon (仙台天道白衣大観音), is a large statue of Byakue Kannon (白衣観音) bearing a gem in her hand located in Sendai , Japan. [1] Large statue in Sendai, Japan This article needs additional citations for verification . ( August 2021 )
#14 Montebello Genocide Memorial
The Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument , better known as Montebello Genocide Memorial , is a monument in Montebello , California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area , dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915. The monument, opened in April 1968, is a tower of eight arches supported
#15 Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was a public art installation created in the moat of the Tower of London , England, between July and November 2014. It commemorated the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and consisted of 888,246 ceramic red poppies , each intended to represent one British or
#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 Silent Sam
The Confederate Monument, University of North Carolina , commonly known as Silent Sam , is a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier by Canadian sculptor John A. Wilson , which once stood on McCorkle Place of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) from 1913 until it was pulled down by
#18 Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65
Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 is an abstract bronze sculpture by Henry Moore . It is one of Moore's earliest sculptures in two pieces, a mode that he started to adopt in 1959. Its form was inspired by the shape of a bone fragment. Moore created the sculpture from an edition of 10 working models in 19
Sigismund's Column ( Polish : Kolumna Zygmunta ), originally erected in 1644, is located at Castle Square , Warsaw , Poland and is one of Warsaw's most famous landmarks as well as the first secular monument in the form of a column in modern history . [1] The column and statue commemorate King Sigism
#20 Always Becoming
Always Becoming is an artwork created in 2007 by Nora Naranjo-Morse , a Native American potter and poet . The artwork groups five sculptures made with natural materials, which allows them to gradually change over time. The National Museum of the American Indian selected and commissioned the artwork