One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

Behind the Propylaea, Phidias ' gigantic bronze statue of Athena Promachos (" she who fights in the front line "), built between 450 BC and 448 BC, dominated.

* the bronze statue of Venus ( 1558 – 59 ), in the Prado Museum ( Madrid, Spain ).

* the bronze statue Goddess Opi ( 1572 – 75 ), Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

A great bronze statue of Boudica with her daughters in her war chariot ( furnished with scythes after the Persian fashion ) was commissioned by Prince Albert and executed by Thomas Thornycroft.

On 30 November 1988, a bronze statue of Clement Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson ( the next Labour prime minister after Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library in his former constituency.

A statue in the Galleria Borghese depicts Cerberus with three heads sitting by the side of Hades, while a bronze sculpture depicting Heracles ' twelfth labour shows the demi-god leading a two-headed Cerberus from the underworld.

A 22-foot bronze statue of Valderrama, created by Colombian artist Amilkar Ariza, was erected outside Estadio Eduardo Santos in Valderrama's birthplace of Santa Marta in 2006.

In 1989, U. S. Ambassador Charles Price and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dedicated a bronze statue of Eisenhower in Grosvenor Square, London.

Outside the centre stands a bronze statue of Thomas, by John Doubleday.

A bronze statue to mark the centenary of Thomas ' birth, by Welsh sculptor Peter Nicholas, is planned for 2014.

According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei received a bronze statue of Buddha as a gift from the king of Paekche King Song Myong ( 聖明王, Seimei Ō ) along with a significant envoy of artisans, monks, and other artifacts in 552.

* On June 12, 2011, Talbot County, Maryland, honored Douglass by installing a seven-foot bronze statue of Douglass on the lawn of the county courthouse in Easton, Maryland.

As a tribute to his life and works, a bronze statue of Stephenson was unveiled at Chesterfield railway station ( which is overlooked by Tapton House, where Stephenson spent the last ten years of his life ) on 28 October 2005, marking the completion of improvements to the station.

Avalokiteshvara statue found in Perak, 8th-9th century bronze

On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection, as a replacement for the State of Alabama's former 1908 statue of the education reformer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry.

Elsewhere in his Church History, Eusebius reports seeing what he took to be portraits of Jesus, Peter and Paul, and also mentions a bronze statue at Banias / Paneas, of which he wrote, " They say that this statue is an image of Jesus " ( H. E.

John Francis Wilson thinks it possible to have been a pagan bronze statue whose true identity had been forgotten ; some have thought it to be Aesculapius, the God of healing, but the description of the standing figure and the woman kneeling in supplication is precisely that found on coins depicting the bearded emperor Hadrian reaching out to a female figure symbolizing a province kneeling before him.

Works of embellishment were not confined to churches alone: excavations at the site of the Great Palace of Constantinople have yielded several high-quality mosaics dating from Justinian's reign, and a column topped by a bronze statue of Justinian on horseback and dressed in a military costume was erected in the Augustaeum in Constantinople in 543.

The bronze statue that stands in the United States Capitol

In 1903 the state of Maryland donated a bronze statue by Richard E. Brooks to the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection.

The larger-than-life bronze statue by Tom Tsuchiya, shows Bench in the act of throwing out a base runner.

Comedian and actor Ronnie Barker ( 1929 – 2005 ) began his acting career in the town in the late 1940s and in September 2010, almost five years after his death, a bronze statue of him was unveiled by actor David Jason and Barker's one time co-star Ronnie Corbett ( the other half of the Two Ronnies ) on a new public place in Exchange Street.

In 2007, Barker was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians, and a bronze bust depicting him is on permanent display in the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol.

One lost his first match, while Bashirov beat the European Championship bronze medalist by one of the widest margins in the division, before being defeated in his second bout by Val Barker Trophy winner Bakhtiyar Artayev.

Ranging from forty-four inches to nearly nine feet high and from bronze to other metals, these works of art represent the richly diverse character of modern and contemporary sculpture.

Some variants interchange the chuo 辵 " go ; advance " radical with the xing 行 " go ; road " radical, with the original bronze " crossroads " depiction written in the seal character with two 彳 and 亍 " footprints ".

The Fool and Death, a bronze sculpture by Bernhardt depicting the character of Triboulet in Hugo's Le roi s ' amuse

According to the De Dea Syria, the worship was of a phallic character, votaries offering little male figures of wood and bronze.

It has been suggested by fans of pulp hero Doc Savage that Savage and the character of MacReady are actually one and the same ( the text describes MacReady as a " bronze giant of a man "; Savage is popularly known as " The Man of Bronze "), which would make " Who Goes There?

A bronze sculpture of Tinker Bell by London artist Diarmuid Byron O ' Connor was commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, to whom Barrie bequeathed the copyright to the character, to be added to his original four-foot statue of Peter Pan, wresting a thimble from Peter's hand.

In the United States, the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act defined an antique as " works of art ( except rugs and carpets made after the year 1700 ), collections in illustration of the progress of the arts, works in bronze, marble, terra cotta, parian, pottery or porcelain, artistic antiquities and objects of ornamental character or educational value which shall have been produced prior to the year 1830.

These include the foundations of several successive forts, one above the other, which throw much light on the character of the Roman military post ; an unparalleled collection of Roman armour, including ornate cavalry parade ( or ' sports ') helmets ( Newstead Helmet ), horse fittings including bronze saddleplates and studded leather chamfrons, a good series of Roman coins and some datable pottery.

Image: Shang dynasty bronze Chinese character 寅 yin2. svg | Shang Dynasty

Image: Chinese character 寅 Yin2 from late W Zhou bronze. svg | Late Western Zhou

Image: Chinese character 寅 yin2 in early Warring States bird script from bronze vessel. svg | Bird Script, early Warring States

Image: Chinese character 寅 yin2 from late Warring States bronze. svg | Late Warring States

Like early period oracle bone script, the structures and orientations of individual graphs varied greatly in the Shang bronze inscriptions, such that one may find a particular character written differently each time rather than in a standardized way ( see the many examples of " tiger " graph to the lower left ).

Additionally, the bronze patina gives off a rusty, greenish colour, highlighting the runestones ' gray and reddish tones and emphasising their monumental character and significance.

Although the exact meaning may have been different, the group of Sanxingdui masked figures in bronze all have the character of an impersonator.

In order to do that, Kuros must first collect bronze, silver, and gold statues of each character class and return each statue to its corresponding " guild ".

A study of the earliest sources ( the oracle bones script and the Zhou-dynasty bronze script ) is often necessary for an understanding of the true composition and etymology of any particular character.