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On the portico leading to the Domed Hall is positioned a bust of the Roman Emperor Augustus.
The important works which have perished include the uncompleted chalice intended for Clement VII ; a gold cover for a prayer book as a gift from Pope Paul III to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor – both described at length in his autobiography ; large silver statues of Jupiter, Vulcan and Mars, wrought for Francis I during his sojourn in Paris ; a bust of Julius Caesar ; and a silver cup for the cardinal of Ferrara.
In 1894 the Emperor Wilhelm II made him a " Wirklicher Geheimrat " with the title of " Excellenz ," and his bust, with that of Helmholtz, was set up at the Brandenburg Gate near the statues erected to the Emperor and Empress Frederick.
The gold coins of Justinian II departed from these stable conventions by putting a bust of Christ on the obverse, and a half or full-length portrait of the Emperor on the reverse.
The anonymous folles featured the bust of Jesus on the obverse and the inscription " XRISTUS / bASILEU / bASILE ", which translates to " Christ, Emperor of Emperors "
The Senate Hall contained a portrait of Emperor Frederick III by Lauchert and a bust of Immanuel Kant by Hagemann and Schadow.
The obverse contains an classical ( not medieval ) bust of the emperor wearing a laureate wreath with the legend CESAR AVG IMP ROM ( Caesar Augustus, Emperor of the Romans ); the reverse shows an eagle, the imperial symbol, with the name FRIDE RICVS ( Frederick ).
The bust of Hispania | Hispanic Roman Emperor Hadrian, lover of Antinous can be found today in the Palazzo dei Conservatori.
Supporting this theory, a gold bust of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius was found on the site of the temple.
The UK front cover featured a motif based on the bust of a Roman Emperor, with a strange text.
* In the scenes set at Brutus's house, a bust of the Emperor Hadrian — who was not born for another 120 years — gazes down at the proceedings.
Prior to 1948, the obverse legend surrounding the bust of George VI on Canadian coins read " GEORGIVS VI D: G: REX ET IND: IMP " (" George VI By the Grace of God, King and Emperor of India ").

bust and II
Gifts and purchases from Henry Salt, British Consul General in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ramesses II in 1818, laid the foundations of the collection of Egyptian Monumental Sculpture.
Room 4-Colossal bust of Ramesses II, the ' Younger Memnon ' ( 1250 BC )
* Colossal bust of Ramesses II, the " Younger Memnon " ( 1250 BC )
A bust of Beatty rests on Trafalgar Square in London, alongside those of Jellicoe and Andrew Cunningham, Admiral of the Fleet in World War II.
A bust of Jellicoe rests on Trafalgar Square in London, alongside those of Beatty and Andrew Cunningham, Admiral of the Fleet in World War II.
File: BLW Bust of Charles II. jpg | Honoré Pelle's bust of Charles II
When the agricultural boom went bust after World War II and never resumed its former glory, Culbertson saw a gradual decline in businesses and population.
After the end of World War II, the entire region went through several " boom " and " bust " periods, cycling approximately every 10 years and heavily based on available government funding for Hanford-related work.
The Maundy pieces continue to use the original obverse design for Queen Elizabeth II by Mary Gillick, although the bust of the Queen on other British coins has been repeatedly replaced as she ages.
Most pennies of Kings William I and II show a front-facing bust of the king on the obverse ( which was a departure from the Anglo-Saxon kings, who mostly used a sideways-facing bust ), surrounded by a legend, usually ( King William, or William King of the English — The P may have been a late usage of the letter wynn, a P-shaped rune which had the sound value of a " w ").
Edward III's first coinage, between 1327 and 1335, is very similar to the Edward I and II pennies, with the inscription around a front-facing bust of the king ; these pennies were minted in London, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Durham, York, and Berwick on Tweed.
The obverse showed a left-facing bust of the new king with no value indication behind his head, and the inscription — Charles II by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland.
The penny had a left-facing bust of George II and the inscription continuing onto the other side with around the crowned " I ".
A similar threepence was produced for king James II, dated 1685 to 1688, the obverse showing a left-facing bust of the king and the inscription, with the reverse showing three crowned " I " s ( indicating the value ) and the inscription.
The obverse showed a fine right-facing bust of the king wearing a laurel wreath ( amended several times during the reign ), surrounded by the legend (" Charles II by the grace of God "), while the reverse showed four crowned cruciform shields bearing the arms of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, between which were four sceptres, and in the centre were four interlinked " C " s, surrounded by the inscription (" Of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King ").
They were also issued during a period when hammered coins were issued under King Charles II ( i. e. 1660-62 ), showing a left-facing bust of the king wearing a laurel and the legend -- there were two issues, the second indicating the value " XX " behind the king's head.
The Nefertiti bust was displayed in Berlin ’ s Neues Museum on Museum Island until the museum was closed in 1939 ; with the onset of World War II, the Berlin museums were emptied and the artifacts moved to secure shelters for safekeeping.
Another theory suggested that the existing Nefertiti bust was crafted in 1930s on Hitler's orders and the original was lost in World War II.
By the 1970s, the bust had become an issue of national identity to both the German states – East Germany and West Germany – which were created after World War II.
After his death, critics pointed to Jackson's support for Japanese American internment camps during World War II as a reason to protest the placement of his bust at the University of Washington.

bust and from
The last performance which issued from his hand was a colossal bust of his friend, the Count Cicognara.
As in Classical architecture, in Gothic architecture, too, an aedicule or tabernacle frame is a structural framing device that gives importance to its contents, whether an inscribed plaque, a cult object, a bust or the like, by assuming the tectonic vocabulary of a little building that sets it apart from the wall against which it is placed.
Franklin's birthplace site directly across from Old South Meeting House on Milk Street is commemorated by a bust ( sculpture ) | bust above the second floor facade of this building
Her head however, was parted from her body and inserted in a gilt bust from bronze.
However, when a player is extremely short stacked compared to the rest of the field in a tournament, making him bust will sometimes be more profitable than winning his chips, so inducing overcalls from other players trumps isolation play.
On his death, the bust of Urban that lay beside the Palace of the Conservators on the Capitoline Hill was rapidly destroyed by an enraged crowd, and only a quick-thinking priest saved the sculpture of Urban belonging to the Jesuits from a similar fate.
Two years later in Paris he repeated the proposal, listing the stone as one of several key items belonging to Egypt's cultural heritage, a list which also included the iconic bust of Nefertiti in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ; a statue of the Great Pyramid architect Hemiunu in the Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany ; the Dendara Temple Zodiac in the Louvre in Paris ; and the bust of Ankhhaf from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
In addition, he also proposed his historical perception that a country cannot escape from the fate of the boom and bust cycle.
Roman bust of Sappho, copied from a lost Hellenistic original in Istanbul Archaeological Museum
His 1914 The Nostalgia of the Poet ( La Nostalgie du poete ) has the figure turned away from the viewer, and the juxtaposition of a bust with glasses and a fish as a relief defies conventional explanation.
The first of these was from 1835, when Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Baron Yarborough gave a bust of Newton to the Mechanics ' Institute in Lincoln.
A Bust ( sculpture ) | bust of Thoreau from the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at the Bronx Community College
In the open ocean ( away from areas of continuous upwelling ), this cycle of bloom, bust, then return to pre-bloom conditions typically occurs over an annual cycle, with diatoms only being prevalent during the spring and early summer.
A solidus of Constantine as well as a gold medallion from his reign depict the Emperor's bust in profile twinned (" jugate ") with Sol Invictus, with the legend.
He is described as " never too busy to mend a toy for a child, and his wife once wrote on hearing of his imminent return from America: ' to celebrate your return I must do something or bust ".
President Joaquin Balaguer ( center ) presented with a bust of John F. Kennedy from President Richard Nixon.
* c. 1348 BC – 1336 BC: Nefertiti, bust from Akhetaten ( modern Amarna ) was made.
* c. 1390 BC – 1352 BC: Queen Tiy, bust from Kom Medinet el-Ghurab ( near el-Lahun ) was made.
The United States stock market was described as being in a secular bull market from about 1983 to 2000 ( or 2007 ), with brief upsets including the crash of 1987 and the dot-com bust of 2000 – 2002.
Komarov is commemorated with other prominent figures from the early Russian space program with a bust on Cosmonauts Alley in Moscow, and he is also honored with a monument at the crash site near Orsk.

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