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
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
Gustave Eiffel
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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Métiers, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit
Statue of Liberty
…a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and its metal framework built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue is a figure of a classically draped woman, inspired by the Roman goddess of liberty, Libertas…
Eiffel in 1888, photographed by Félix Nadar
The Bordeaux overpass, Eiffel's first major work
The Budapest Nyugati railway station
The Maria Pia Bridge