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This angel was created as a one-meter model which was sent to Italy where it was enlarged, cast in bronze, and gilded.
The front of his tomb has a lid of gilded bronze which shows a likeness of the dead pope.
A Gilding | gilded bronze oil lamp in the shape of a kneeling female servant, dated 2nd century BCE, found in the tomb of Dou Wan, wife of the Han prince Liu Sheng ; its sliding shutter allows for adjustments in the direction and brightness in light while it also traps smoke within the body.
Major memorials to Sherman include the gilded bronze equestrian statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the main entrance to Central Park in New York City and the major monument by Carl Rohl-Smith near President's Park in Washington, D. C. Other posthumous tributes include the naming of the World War II M4 Sherman tank and the " General Sherman " Giant Sequoia tree, the most massive documented single-trunk tree in the world.
The statue will house over one lakh ( one hundred thousand ) smaller Buddha statues, each of which, like the Buddha Dordenma itself, will be made of bronze and gilded in gold.
She is buried in the Henry VII Lady Chapel of the Abbey, in a black marble tomb topped with a bronze gilded effigy and canopy, between the graves of William and Mary and the tomb of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Lachares removed the gold sheets in 296 BCE to pay his troops, and the bronze replacements for them were probably gilded thereafter ; it was damaged by a fire about 165 BCE but repaired.
Seven competitors each produced a gilded bronze panel, depicting the Sacrifice of Isaac.
He was then commissioned to execute monumental gilded bronze statues to be placed within select niches of the Orsanmichele in Florence, one of Saint John the Baptist for the Arte di Calimala ( Wool Merchants ' Guild ) and one of St. Matthew for the Arte di Cambio ( Bankers ' Guild ).
Paul Manship's highly recognizable bronze gilded statue of the Greek legend of the Titan Prometheus recumbent, bringing fire to mankind, features prominently in the sunken plaza at the front of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
* the freestanding gilded bronze Hercules the Archer, 1909
Behind the altar is a three-tiered reredos, made of red granite and jasper, nearly twenty-eight metres tall, adorned with gilded bronze statuary by Leone Leoni, and three sets of religious paintings commissioned by Philip II.
The famous " Madonnina " atop the main spire of the cathedral, a baroque gilded bronze statue
* Sala Rotonda: shaped like a miniature Pantheon, the room has impressive ancient mosaics on the floors, and ancient statues lining the perimeter, including a gilded bronze statue of Hercules.
The gilded bronze eagle on Linden Lane
It had elaborately carved doorways and windows, and its columns were ornately decorated ( far more so than is visible today ); they were painted, gilded and highlighted with gilt bronze and multi-colored inset glass beads.
It was originally covered with gilded bronze plaques, but they were sacked by Latin troops in the Fourth Crusade.
The pediment was decorated with relief sculpture, probably of gilded bronze.
The tomb consists of a slab of alabaster mounted in gilded bronze.
The Master furnace bridge designed by Révoil, carried out by Jules Cantini between 1882 and 1886, is out of white marble with a formed base of five gilded bronze blind arcades resting on posts in lapis lazuli with a decoration of mosaics.
Image: Gilded bronze avalokitesvara, Tang Dynasty. JPG | A gilded bronze Avalokitesvara statuette, late 7th or early 8th century
It is made of gilded bronze and venetian crystals.
However, prior to the 1966 final, The Football Association made an ( unauthorised ) replica in secret in gilded bronze for use in post-match celebrations due to security concerns – the genuine trophy was made out of close to 2 kg of pure gold.

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In gratitude Smaragdus erected in the Roman Forum a gilded statue atop the rededicated " Column of Phocas ", which featured a new inscription on its base in the Emperor's honour.
The statue alone is being built at a cost of US $ 47 million, by Aerosun Corporation of Nanjing, China, while the total cost of the Buddha Dordenma Project is well over US $ 100 million. The interior will accommodate 100, 000 8-inch-tall and 25, 000 12-inch-tall gilded Buddhas respectively.
When the Victoria Palace Theatre in London, England, opened in 1911, a gilded statue of Pavlova had been installed above the cupola of the theatre.
A gilded variant of the statue Madonna, that once stood here but was demolished by communists after the end of WWII, now stands in front of Saint James's Church.
East along the rue de Rivoli, at the Place des Pyramides, is the gilded statue of Joan of Arc situated close to where she was wounded at the Saint-Honoré Gate in her unsuccessful attack on English-held Paris on September 8, 1429.
One of the most famous monuments of the Paseo is El Ángel de la Independencia – a tall column with a gilded statue of a Winged Victory ( that bears resemblance with an angel, therefore its common name ) on its top and many marble statues on its base depicting the heroes of the Mexican War of Independence, built to commemorate the centennial of Mexico's independence in 1910.
Much to the annoyance of Marius, a gilded equestrian statue of Sulla donated by King Bocchus was erected in the Forum to commemorate his accomplishment.
Among them were eleven wooden shabti statuettes from Yuya, a gilded wooden statue of Tutankhamun carried by a goddess and a statue of Nefertiti.
Included are a vase stand, fragment of furniture, a silver head of a goose, pall-discs of gilded copper, and a statue plinth.
The statue was scraped with scalpels ( on the non-gilded areas ) and lasered ( on the gilded areas ) to remove surface build-up.
* June 29-Unveiling of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus in London, with a gilded aluminium statue of Anteros, designed by Alfred Gilbert.
A square bell-tower of 41m ( 135 feet ) is surmounted by a belfry of 12. 5m ( 42 feet ), which itself supports a monumental, 11. 2m ( 27 feet ) tall statue of the Madonna and Child made of copper gilded with gold leaf.
This statue is gilded with the sheet ; the gilding which requires gold was remade into 1897, 1936, 1963 and 1989 Régis Bertrand, Lucien Tirone, The guide of Marseille, ED.
Thus the basilica perched on the hill of the guard, and the copper statue gilded which they hoisted on the basilica.
His tombstone also became the subject of controversy, as his widow had wished for a simple abstract slab, while his parents insisted on a realistic gilded statue.
On August 21, 1770, the British government erected a 4, 000 pound ( 1, 800 kg ) gilded lead equestrian statue of King George III in Bowling Green ; the King was dressed in Roman garb in the style of the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius.
To the left of Preaching Hall is the Hall of the Recumbent Buddha ( wo fo dian ; 卧佛殿 ), where, behind a long, gilded altar, a gilded, bejeweled statue of Buddha stretches out almost twenty feet in length.

gilded and James
The church is also remarkable for its high quality fittings such as the 1783 organ by James Davis and 1810 chamber organ ( also by James Davis ) and the splendid gilded reredos or altar screen, one of the largest works of Sir Ninian Comper.

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