The theme of the Dying Gaul ( a famous statue displayed in Pergamon ) remained a favorite in Hellenistic art for a generation.

To give two examples, the marble statue of Cristo della Minerva ( church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome ) was covered by added drapery, as it remains today, and the statue of the naked child Jesus in Madonna of Bruges ( The Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium ) remained covered for several decades.

There was still no such recognition in the U. S. This remained the case until June 10, 1871, when a bronze statue of Samuel Morse was unveiled in Central Park, New York City.

Despite its pagan links, the statue remained standing well into the medieval era and was credited with magical powers.

Lack of a legitimate heir, however, remained a concern for Władysław I and in 1085 he and his wife Judith of Bohemia sent rich gifts, among which was a life size statue of a child made of gold, to the Benedictine Sanctuary of Saint Giles in Saint-Gilles, Provance begging for offspring.

Also, since the ancients would not have had the ability to remove the entire statue from the harbor, it would not have remained visible on land for the next 800 years, as discussed above.

The Greeks learnt from Helenus, that Troy would not fall, while the Palladium, image or statue of Athena, remained within Troy's walls.

Works covered in this wy include the marble statue of Cristo della Minerva ( church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome ) which was covered by added drapery, as it remains today, and the statue of the naked child Jesus in Madonna of Bruges ( The Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium ) remained covered for several decades.

Also on that journey were several families who remained in the still raw settlement that would become Chicago, including that of Dexter Graves who is memorialized in Graceland Cemetery by the well-known Lorado Taft statue " Eternal Silence " ( also known as " the Dexter Graves Monument ").

In 1921, Loy posed for Harry Winebrenner's statue titled " Spiritual ," which remained in front of Venice High School throughout the 20th century and can be seen in the opening scenes of the 1978 film Grease.

While legend traces this statue to India, its rich historical records dates its finding in Cambodia in the 15th century, moved to Laos in the 16th century and then to Vientiane where it remained for 215 years, and finally to Thailand in the 18th century.

The King of Chiang Mai considered the incident to be a strong divine directive and allowed the Buddha statue to remain in Lampang, where it remained for the next 32 years in an exclusively built temple.

The statue remained here for twelve years.

The hotel was topped with a statue of Mercury, the Roman god of speed, and remained in operation from 1900 until 1937.

Parts of the statue had broken off and a good deal of it still remained buried.

A statue of the king by John Cheere was erected in the square in 1751 in gratitude, and the market place was renamed Royal Square, although the name has remained Lé Vièr Marchi ( the old market ) to this day in Jèrriais.

The only Kossuth statue that remained on its place after 1920 in Romania stands in Salonta.

The statue remained damaged until 1970 when an American visiting his daughter at the London School of Economics, which is nearby, saw the damaged statue.

Kansas remained the only state to do so until August 31, 2006, when the California State Legislature voted to replace its statue of Thomas Starr King with one of former president Ronald Reagan.

He remained in that position until the Communist government began to fall in 1991, when he resigned after mobs tore down the statue of Enver Hoxha, Albania's communist leader from the 1940s until the 1980s.

During World War I, the statue of Mary and the infant Jesus-designed by sculptor Albert Roze and dubbed the " Golden Virgin "-on top of the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebières was hit by a shell on January 15, 1915, and slumped to a near-horizontal position, where however it remained until further shelling in 1918 destroyed the tower.

* A marble statue, in a yard of the old buildings of the University of Pavia, at N. 65 of the central “ Strada Nuova ”.

In Brunswick, his capital, he had a bronze lion, his heraldic animal, erected in the yard of his castle Dankwarderode in 1166 — the first bronze statue north of the Alps.

Tradition in New Orleans also holds that by burying a small statue of St. Joseph upside down in the front yard of a house, that house will sell more promptly.

In the United States, some Christians have small yard shrines ; some of these resemble side altars, since they are composed of a statue placed in a niche or grotto ; this type is colloquially referred to as a bathtub madonna.

In the 1970s, a statue of King Kong stood on the yard of a second hand car dealership on Stratford Road, roughly opposite St. Agatha's.

Scientific equipments, building parts, and even the Underwood statue were seized then the school yard was turned into drill ground.

A statue, dated 1863, by E. B. Stevens of the 1st Earl Fortescue stands in the yard: it is Grade II listed.

The statue of Sakyamuni oblated in the Daxiong Palace from the east yard was created during the Qing Dynasty.

The church is said to be haunted by the " Black Angel ", a black statue found at the back of the grave yard.

Spokesmen for the nation's tradition-minded sculptors promptly claimed that Udall was exiling the statue because of his own hostility to this art form.

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

Dionysus wept tears of wine in remorse for his action at the sight of the beautiful statue.

In 1635 – 38, Pietro Boncompagni commissioned from Algardi a colossal statue of Philip Neri with kneeling angels for Santa Maria in Vallicella, completed in 1640.

In his native village he began to make preparations for erecting a temple which was to contain, not only the above statue, but other works of his own ; within its precincts were to repose also the ashes of the founder.

In May 1822 he paid a visit to Naples, to superintend the construction of wax moulds for an equestrian statue of the perjured Bourbon king Ferdinand VII.

In 2010, Grant Speed's statue was taken down for refurbishment, and construction began on a new Walk of Fame.

On May 9, 2011, the City of Lubbock held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Plaza, the new home of the statue and the Walk of Fame.

A statue of Alexander is planned for the Gungahlin Library.

Since the temple was not considered a place of worship for use by the population at large, but rather a home for the deity, the sanctuary needed only to be large enough to hold the statue or linga ; it was never more than a few metres across.

The idea of an artifact made conscious is an ancient theme of mythology, appearing for example in the Greek myth of Pygmalion, who carved a statue that was magically brought to life, and in medieval Jewish stories of the Golem, a magically animated homunculus built of clay.

It is known worldwide for the 38-metre ( 125 ft ) statue of Jesus atop its peak, entitled Cristo Redentor or " Christ the Redeemer ".

He is accused of sleeping with other men's wives and bragging about it, killing for mere amusement, deliberately wasting money on his bridge, causing starvation, and wanting a statue of himself erected in the Temple of Jerusalem for his worship.

There are also preliminary plans to erect a 1: 1-scale replica of Wacław Szymanowski's Art Nouveau statue of Frederic Chopin found in Warsaw's Royal Baths along Chicago's lakefront in addition to a different sculpture commemorating the artist in Chopin Park for the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's birth.

The statue is located in front of the current US Embassy, London and across from the former command center for the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II, offices Eisenhower occupied during the war.

*" Diana of the Tower " a copper statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens was created as the weather vane for the second Madison Square Garden in 1893.

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

Then he announced to the world: " The independence of Austria, for which he has fallen, is a principle that has been defended and will be defended by Italy even more strenuously ", and then replaced in the main square of Bolzano the statue of Walther von der Vogelweide, a Germanic troubadour, with that of Drusus, a Roman general who conquered part of Germany.

According to one famous episode, shortly after the Soga's began worshipping the new Buddha statue, a plague broke out, which the Mononobe's promptly attributed to a curse by Japan's traditional deities as punishment for worshipping the foreign god.

In Magdalena de Kino in Sonora, Mexico in the Temple of Santa María Magdalena, there is an statue of San Francisco Xavier, an important historical figure for both Sonora and the neighboring U. S. state of Arizona.

The statue is said to be miraculos and is the object of pilgrimage for many of the region.

* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.