He swings the hammer and shatters the statue in one blast.

And the man who brought sweet potatoes into Kanto is buried there, next to a beautiful seated statue of Fudo.

Her life was spared by Artemis, who transformed the maiden into a statue of pure crystalline quartz to protect her from the brutal claws.

They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

Daniel's companions Ananias ( Hananiah / Shadrach ), Azariah ( Abednego ), and Mishael ( Meshach ) refuse to bow to the emperor's golden statue and are thrown into a furnace.

Mononobe no Okoshi and his men promptly threw the statue into a river in Naniwa and burned the temple that the Soga's had built to hold it.

However, Capra remembers the ship's arrival into New York Harbor, where he saw " a statue of a great lady, taller than a church steeple, holding a torch above the land we were about to enter ".

There were few survivors, many evacuated, and the Brotherhood of Mutants turned one of the Sentinels into a memorial statue in # 132.

The statue represents the seminal moment in Keller's life when she understood her first word: W-A-T-E-R, as signed into her hand by teacher Anne Sullivan.

The statue, by Charles Hadcock, depicts a roll of film with the face of Frankenstein's monster engraved into the frames, and the names of his most famous films etched into a cast concrete base in the shape of film canisters.

According to some sources, after his triumphal entry into the city, Allenby raised his sword in salute to the famous statue of Saladin and proudly declared " Today the wars of the Crusaders are completed.

A giant 15-meter ( 50 ft ) tall gold-plated statue of him stands on a rotating pedestal in Ashgabat, so it will always face into the sun and shine light onto the city.

It was the first statue moved into the Emancipation Hall.

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For example, a spell to turn a person into a stone statue would involve Muto + Corpus or Terram ; The player would add the character's Technique ( Muto ) score to the lower of their Form ( Corpus and Terram ) scores to determine their casting total for the spell.

One of his Enigma Variations was inspired by a bulldog named Dan falling into the River Wye at Hereford, and the dog is similarly honoured with a wooden statue beside the river.

This statue was later remodeled by Nero's successors into the likeness of Helios ( Sol ) or Apollo, the sun god, by adding the appropriate solar crown.

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

The left hand would have held the apple up into the air further back inside the niche the statue was set in.

The quality workmanship in the carving would not have fit into the incorrect assessment of Hellenistic art and the plinth mysteriously disappeared shortly before the statue was presented to King Louis XVIII in 1821 and evidence of it only survives in two drawings and an early description.

The sculptor also was reputed to have immortalised his eromenos, Pantarkes, by carving " Pantarkes kalos " into the god's little finger, and placing a relief of the boy crowning himself at the feet of the statue.

* Another vaticinium ex eventu about Caligula's attempt to put a statue of himself or of Jupiter into the temple in AD 37-41

At the age of nine, calling himself un petit Huguenot, he refused to attend Mass, sang Protestant psalms to his sister Margaret ( exhorting her all the while to change her religion and cast her Book of Hours into the fire ), and even bit the nose off a statue of Saint Paul.

The statue represents a university student who, while reading a book, lets wisdom flow into his head as liquid from a glass.

* 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces ; Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

The most interesting pieces of the interior are a font with marble basin ( 12th – 13th century ), a silver statue of St. Lucy by Pietro Rizzo ( 1599 ), a ciborium by Luigi Vanvitelli, and a statue of the Madonna della Neve (" Madonna of the Snow ", 1512 ) by Antonello Gagini.

Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.

The statue was found in two large pieces ( the upper torso and the lower draped legs ) along with several herms ( pillars topped with heads ), fragments of the upper left arm and left hand holding an apple, and an inscribed plinth.

Ashore, d ' Urville and officer Matterer met a Greek farmer named Moraitis, who a few days earlier while ploughing his fields had uncovered blocks of marble and a statue in two pieces, which he offered cheaply to the two young men.

The statue of Jupiter at Olympia, which he had ordered to be taken to pieces and moved to Rome, suddenly uttered such a peal of laughter that the scaffolding collapsed and the workmen took to their heels.

Dhritarashtra crushed the statue into pieces, but later realised his folly and apologised to Bhima.

His bronze statue of John Robert Godley in Christchurch, New Zealand, was toppled and shattered into several pieces by the February 2011 earthquake.

On September 19, 1998, a new statue arrived in Frazee in three pieces on a flatbed trailer.

A few pieces are particularly striking, such as the overture to Zaïs, depicting the chaos before the creation of the universe, that of Pigmalion, suggesting the sculptor's chipping away at the statue with his mallet, or many more conventional depictions of storms and earthquakes, as well perhaps as the imposing final chaconnes of Les Indes galantes or Dardanus.

Sculptor Lee Lawrie contributed the largest number of individual pieces – twelve – including the statue of Atlas facing Fifth Avenue and the conspicuous friezes above the main entrance to the RCA Building.

Prizes are awarded for the most elaborately designed and decorated pieces in an annual competition held in Kraków's main square beside the statue of Adam Mickiewicz.

The arms show the club that smashed to pieces the statue of the god Thor standing at Hundorp.

The statue at the top was sculpted by Edward Hodges Baily R. A. from three pieces of Craigleith sandstone donated by the Duke of Buccleuch, former chairman of the Nelson Memorial Committee, from his own quarries.

After arriving at the island, the 2, 700 bronze pieces of the statue were scattered in a terrain awaiting for funds for the project, but Rivera Sierra was unable to garner enough public support and funding for it.

These includes 30 pieces taken from a number of relief panels, five buddha images, two lions, one gargoyle, several kala motifs from the stairs and gateways, and a large guardian statue ( dvarapala ) found on Bukit Dagi — a hill several hundred meters northwest of Borobudur.

Dhritarashtra crushed the iron statue into pieces.

She ordered the statue to be smashed into " a thousand pieces " and thrown into the sea.

Much of the work on the statue was actually done at a foundry in Lander, Wyoming, with the pieces transported and assembled onsite.

Most of these pieces are now in Vienna or Madrid, including Titian's Venus with an Organ-player, Giambologna's copy of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, tapestries after cartoons by Hieronymus Bosch and a bust of Charles V by Leoni.

When the time came to transport the pieces of the statue to the Square, the State Security Bureau, hearing of the students ' intention, declared that any truck drivers assisting them would lose their licenses.

Although it has no dedicated art gallery, fine pieces of sculpture can be found in the town ’ s environs, including the ‘ Sock Man ’, a bronze statue celebrating Loughborough ’ s association with the hosiery industry.