Picasso's paintings of massive figures from 1906 were directly influenced by Gauguin's sculpture, painting and his writing as well.

* 1880: The Lion of Belfort, in Belfort, France, a massive sculpture of a lion carved into the side of a mountain, depicting the huge struggle of the French to hold off the Prussian assault at the end of the Franco-Prussian War.

Athena Parthenos (; literally, " Athena the Virgin ") was the title of a massive chryselephantine sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena made by Phidias and housed in the Parthenon in Athens.

The sculpture was placed at the very front edge of the massive plinth, emphasising its vulnerability and relative smallness.

Half organic building, half massive sculpture, it was constructed from stones collected on his postal round, held together with chicken wire, cement, and lime.

In 1834 the newly-appointed French inspector of historical monuments, Prosper Mérimée ( more familiar as the author of Carmen ), warned that it was about to collapse, and on his recommendation the young architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was appointed to supervise a massive and successful restoration, undertaken in several stages between 1840 and 1861, during which his team replaced a great deal of the weathered and vandalized sculpture.

The massive statue in the foreground was a gift to the University by its sculptor Sir Edward Paolozzi-the sculpture is named ' Faraday ', and has an excerpt from the poem ' The Dry Salvages ' by T. S. Eliot around its base.

The design of the massive sculpture by Felix de Weldon was based on the iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.

Filling the atrium at the base of the staircase is Tony Smith's massive sculpture Smoke ( 1967 ).

The Great Hall is home to a massive, computer-controlled kinetic sculpture, " Cloud " by Toronto installation artist, David Rokeby.

The buildings show massive proportions in simple geometries, the masonry with small bands of sculpture, perhaps as blind arcading, and concentrated spaces of capitals and round doorways and in the tympanum under an arch.

The well laid out garden and the massive landscaped sculpture of mother and child erected by noted sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman makes it extremely captivating.

For the Exposition, Calder completed three massive sculpture groups, The Nations of the East and The Nations of the West, which crowned triumphal arches, and a fountain group, The Fountain of Energy.

This massive sculpture group crowned the Arch of the Setting Sun.

In the late summer and early fall, Warnecke considered massive headstones, a sarcophagus, a sunken tomb, a raised tomb, and sculpture to mark the graves.

The Farnese Bull, formerly in the Farnese collection in Rome, is a massive Hellenistic sculpture, is the largest single sculpture ever recovered from antiquity to date.

Frankenmuth, Michigan hosts a massive snow and ice sculpture festival in late January with teams traveling to carve from all over the globe.

Most larger sculpture survives from Egyptian temples or tombs ; massive statues were built to represent gods and pharaohs and their queens, usually for open areas in or outside temples.

Reasons included its cost ($ 175, 000 for a solid block of steel ); the fact that many people found it an eyesore ; and the inconvenience to those who had to walk around the massive sculpture as they crossed the plaza.

Also nearing completion was a massive bas-relief sculpture of Washington's head in profile, designed by sculptor Gail Sherman Corbett ( wife of architect Harvey W. Corbett ).

This complex of ancient monuments includes the three pyramid complexes known as the Great Pyramids, the massive sculpture known as the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers ' village and an industrial complex.

The Center of Progress Building is the home of the massive, 180 ton sand sculpture.

It contains a well laid out garden and the massive landscaped sculpture of Mother and Child erected by noted sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman.

The bunker is the secure, undisclosed location where former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9 / 11 attacks: according to Clift's report, entitled " Shining Light on Cheney's Hideaway " Biden said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.

Elsewhere, in an article entitled " Inverted Totalitarianism " Wolin cites phenomena such as the lack of involvement of citizens in a narrow political framework ( due to the influence of money ), the privatization of social security, and massive increases in military spending and spending on surveillance as examples of the push away from public and towards private-controlled government.

He also worked obsessively for over a decade on a massive three volume autobiography entitled A Clean Breast.

An unexpected success came from the single's b-side, a song entitled " N-ai fost acolo " ( You weren't there ), a viral response to critics claiming that the group's lyrics were pure fiction and had no factual basis whatsoever, became a massive hit during the summer and provided a strong launch pad for the album's release in September 1998.

* Also in the United States, a massive N scale semi-public layout, entitled East valley Lines, is in Los Angeles, California.

His other works included a massive historical study entitled A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels in eighteen volumes.

Afterwards, Carr worked on a massive 14-volume work on Soviet history entitled A History of Soviet Russia, a project that he was still engaged on at the time of his death in 1982.

Their debut album, entitled " Eastern Energy ," was released in North America in August 2004 with cover versions of Coldplay's " Clocks " and Enya's " Only Time " included, and a massive television advertising campaign announcing the group's arrival.

After graduating from university in mathematics, for the best part of ten years he worked on a massive book entitled Traits of Astro-Biology.

The Union of Concerned Scientists released a report in February 2004 entitled Scientific Integrity in Policymaking claiming, among other accusations, that President Bush intentionally appointed under-qualified individuals to the PACHA as part of a massive effort to manipulate the government's scientific advisory system to prevent the appearance of expert advice while controlling the advice given.

The station features art by Frédéric Back: a massive stained glass mural entitled L ' histoire de la musique à Montréal (" history of music in Montreal ").

Pugacheva has announced to her audience a massive goodbye tour across the CIS, Europe and America, entitled " Sny o Lubvi ( Dreams about Love )".

The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee report entitled " Petroleum and Poverty Paradox " states that " too often, oil money that should go to a nation ’ s poor ends up in the pockets of the rich, or it may be squandered on grand palaces and massive showcase projects instead of being invested productively ".

With Scott at the helm and thanks to massive airplay from the fledgling rock radio station KROQ, the band went on to record one of the biggest selling EP ’ s ever, which eventually led to a deal with Capitol Records, who then released their first album entitled Spring Session M. After not being able to find a suitable manager, Scott also assumed that role.

In 1870, noted artist James Walker was commissioned by Bachelder to paint an account of Pickett's Charge, entitled " The Repulse of Longstreet's Assault at the Battle of Gettysburg ," a massive work that measured 7. 5 by 20 feet.

Like his predecessors, Witelo ( c. 1230 – 1280 x 1314 ) drew on the extensive body of optical works recently translated from Greek and Arabic to produce a massive presentation of the subject entitled the Perspectiva.

Following the massive success of this album and her solo debut album, Sweet 19 Blues ( 1996 ) on the avex trax label, their original record company released a " best of " compilation containing all original Super Monkey's a-sides and b-sides entitled, Original Tracks Vol. 1 ( 1996 ).

If a main-sequence star is not too massive ( less than approximately 8 solar masses ), it will eventually shed enough mass to form a white dwarf having mass below the Chandrasekhar limit, which will consist of the former core of the star.

If the heavier body is much more massive than the smaller, as for a satellite or small moon orbiting a planet or for the Earth orbiting the Sun, it is accurate and convenient to describe the motion in a coordinate system that is centered on the heavier body, and we say that the lighter body is in orbit around the heavier.

If the core of the star is not too massive ( less than approximately 1. 4 solar mass, taking into account mass loss that has occurred by this time ), it may then form a white dwarf ( possibly surrounded by a planetary nebula ) as described above for less massive stars, with the difference that the white dwarf is composed chiefly of oxygen, neon, and magnesium.

If two devices overwrote the same memory location in a conflict, and the hard disk controller relied on this location ( the HDD controller often being the 2nd conflicting device ) there was the all-too-common possibility of massive data corruption.

If a planet is sufficiently massive, the water on it may be solid even at high temperatures, because of the high pressure caused by gravity, as it was observed on exoplanets Gliese 436 b and GJ 1214 b.

If massive exsolution occurs when magma heads upwards during a volcanic eruption, the resulting eruption is usually explosive.

If a cloud is massive enough that the gas pressure is insufficient to support it, the cloud will undergo gravitational collapse.

If Israel's very existence is threatened, some speculate that she would use a " Samson Option ," a " last resort " deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons, may be initiated should the state of Israel be substantially damaged and / or near destruction.

If the ( light ) source, the massive lensing object, and the observer lie in a straight line, the original light source will appear as a ring around the massive lensing object.

If the input nuclei are sufficiently massive, the resulting fusion product will be heavier than the sum of the reactants ' original masses, in which case the reaction requires an external source of energy.

If the Bhutanese refugee advocate groups are correct, a spot check of a southern gewog should show a massive under-reporting of population.

If caving stops and removal of ore from the drawbells continues, a large void may form, resulting in the potential for a sudden and massive collapse and potentially catastrophic windblast throughout the mine.

During his fourteen years imprisonment in the Château d ' If, Dantès befriends the Abbé Faria (" The Mad Priest "), a fellow prisoner who is trying to tunnel his way to freedom, and who claims knowledge of a massive treasure and continually offers to reward the guards well if they release him.

understood, it is not known precisely how long it will take white dwarfs to cool to blackness .< sup >, § IIIE, IVA .</ sup > Barrow and Tipler estimate that it would take 10 < sup > 15 </ sup > years for a white dwarf to cool to 5 K ; however, if weakly interacting massive particles exist, it is possible that interactions with these particles will keep some white dwarfs much warmer than this for approximately 10 < sup > 25 </ sup > years .< sup >, § IIIE .</ sup > If protons are not stable, white dwarfs will also be kept warm by energy released from proton decay.

If the air masses are strong enough in their respective areas during the summer there can sometimes be a massive difference in temperature between the far north / north-west of Scotland ( including the Islands ) and south-east of England-usually around 10-15 ° C ( 18-27 ° F ) but can be as much as 20 ° C ( 36 ° F ) or more.

If the great north front, approximately 107 metres in length, is Palladian in character, dominated by the massive, six-columned Corinthian portico, then the south front ( illustrated right ) is pure Robert Adam.

If the castle was attacked, the hoarding allowed defenders to go out beyond the keep's massive walls above the heads of the attackers.

Burke's next " massive hit " was his cover of " If You Need Me " ( Atlantic 2185 ), which was recorded on March 15, 1963, which was written and recorded originally by Wilson Pickett for Lloyd Price's Detroit-based Double L Records, which had been rejected by Wexler, but who had purchased the publishing rights.

If a particle were massive enough that its Compton wavelength and Schwarzschild radius were approximately equal, its dynamics would be strongly affected by quantum gravity.

If the disk is massive enough the runaway accretions begin, resulting in the rapid — 100, 000 to 300, 000 years — formation of Moon-to Mars-sized planetary embryos.

If the protostar is sufficiently massive ( above 80 Jupiter masses ), hydrogen fusion follows.

If the dissection tears the aorta completely open ( through all three layers ), massive and rapid blood loss occurs.