Sancarlone
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The San Carlone or Sancarlone or the Colossus of San Carlo Borromeo is a massive copper statue by Giovanni Battista Crespi, erected between 1614 and 1698, near Arona, Italy. It represents Charles Borr
San Carlone
Sancarlone in 2008
Detail of the head
Detail of the face from the inside
Statue of Liberty
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The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City, in New York Harbor. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United State
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…tallest statue in the world that could be visited inside; it held that distinction from its completion in 1698 until 1886, when it was surpassed by the Statue of Liberty (and today there are taller enterable bronze or bronze-clad statues, such as the Ushiku Daibutsu in Japan at 120 m). The Colossus of San Carlo Borromeo…
The Statue of Liberty
Leaf disc dedicated to Sol Invictus, sun god of the late Roman Empire. Sol Invictus, along with Libertas the Roman goddess and personification of Liberty, influenced the design of Liberty Enlightening the World.
Bartholdi's 1880 sculpture Lion of Belfort
Detail from a 1855–56 fresco by Constantino Brumidi in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., showing two early symbols of America: Columbia (left) and the Indian princess