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The statue was positioned facing south-east so that Wellington would always be looking towards the site of Waterloo-considered his greatest victory.
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It was a pity because she had planned to lay a wreath at the foot of the Garibaldi statue, towering over Rome in spectacular benediction from the highpoint of the Gianicolo.
One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.
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.
In the case of the Borglum statue an Interior aide was obliged to announce that there had been a misunderstanding and that the Secretary had no desire to `` hustle '' it out of Washington.
The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).
The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.
A fine example is the statue of the Sacred gate Kouros which was found at the cemetery of Dipylon in Athens ( Dipylon Kouros ).
Jean Boucher's statue of the seated skeptical thinker Ernest Renan, shown to the left, caused great controversy when it was installed in Tréguier, Brittany in 1902.
The statue was placed in the square fronted by the cathedral.
In an embroidered extension of the myth, the hounds were so upset with their master's death, that Chiron made a statue so lifelike that the hounds thought it was Actaeon.
Her life was spared by Artemis, who transformed the maiden into a statue of pure crystalline quartz to protect her from the brutal claws.
In 1891, a statue was erected to his memory in Königsberg.
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.
Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.
Pausanias, also refers to a statue of Ares by Alcamenes that was erected on the Athenian agora, which some have related to the Ares Borghese.
Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.
Also, there was an ancient statue, representing the god in chains, to indicate that the martial spirit and victory were never to leave the city of Sparta.
Just east of Sparta stood an archaic statue of the god in chains, to show that the spirit of war and victory was never to leave the city.
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.
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Extant Roman coins struck by the Alexandrian mint show that a statue of a Triton was positioned on each of the building's four corners.
Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504.
Constantine's triumphal arch was carefully positioned to align with the colossal statue of Sol by the Colosseum, so that Sol formed the dominant backdrop when seen from the direction of the main approach towards the arch.
The statue would have been painted, as was the Greek custom for statuary, adorned with jewellery, and positioned in a niche inside a gymnasium.
Opatija is known for the Maiden with the seagull, a statue by Zvonko Car ( 1956 ), which is positioned on a promontory by the Juraj Šporer art pavilion.
In one of his temples, probably that of Forum Holitorium, the hands of his statue were positioned to signify the number 355 ( the number of days in a year ), later 365, symbolically expressing his mastership over time.
The Duke is today commemorated by an equestrian statue standing on Whitehall in central London ; it is, somewhat ironically, positioned outside the front door of the War Office that he so strongly resisted.
* Paseo del Príncipe de Vergara ( El Espolón ): Located in the financial center of the capital and positioned in the center by the statue of General Espartero.
On June 3 even as the government troops positioned themselves to move on the students, applause erupted from the people gathered around the statue as it was announced there that a Democracy University would now begin classes in the Square with Zhang Boli appointed as its President.
After 1884, the statue was positioned where it would visually dominate the Daru staircase.
The statue of Tam Kung, which was first worshipped among the other gods in the temple, was formerly positioned in the Tam Kung Temple in Tam Kung Road in Kowloon City.
He has received recognition both on and off the field, a statue of him is proudly positioned at the entrance to Jamaica's National Stadium.
The Shrine of the Culmer Chapel, a statue probably derived from the figure of the Virgin Mary, mounted on a tall column, was so positioned that it faced seaward.
Another of his works is an approximately 10 foot wooden statue of the goddess Diana positioned in the woods above Brading at Kelly's Copse entitled " For Camilla ".
The statue itself is positioned high, which is said to be the depth snow reached during the winter of 1846 when the Donner Party failed to make it over the pass.
Constantine's triumphal arch was carefully positioned to align with the colossal statue of Sol by the Colosseum, so that Sol formed the dominant backdrop when seen from the direction of the main approach towards the arch.
As well, blue lights were positioned on the goddess statue which flash as the gondola reverses direction halfway through the course.
In 2006 a life-size bronze statue of Raleigh by sculptress Vivien Mallock was unveiled by the Duke of Kent and is positioned at the top of the village close to the church.
The statue is positioned facing south for better visibility on Main Street ( Route 40 ).
The Dessalines monument was part of a larger 1954 restoration of the Champs-du-Mars park in Port-au-Prince, Barthe's 40 foot high L ' Overture statue and stone monument was positioned nearer the National Palace, and was unveiled in 1950 with two other commissioned heroic sculptures ( in the capital and in the north of the county ) by Cuban sculptor Blanco Ramos.
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In 1899, Parliament erected a statue to Cromwell in Westminster, facing Whitehall and there, presumably, he still stands.
In January 1204, the protovestiarius Alexius Murzuphlus provoked a riot, it is presumed, to intimidate Alexius IV, but whose only result was the destruction of the great statue of Athena, the work of Phidias, which stood in the principal forum facing west.
Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.
A statue of George dressed in classical robes stands in Neville Street, Newcastle, facing the building that houses the Literary and Philosophical Society and the Mining Institute, and near to Newcastle railway station.
Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.
The Founder's Memorial Statue, a bronze statue of a seated William Marsh Rice, holding the original plans for the campus, was dedicated in 1930, and installed in the central academic quad, facing Lovett Hall.
Outside the church, facing the River Thames, is a statue by L. Cubitt Bevis erected in 1969, commemorating him as " saint ", " scholar ", and " statesman ", the back of which displays his coat-of-arms.
Each statue gives the appearance of facing the other across the Atlantic Ocean.
alt = Photograph of a large bronze statue of two men standing side-by-side and facing forward.
The main square of the town, Place du Marché, features a statue of Freddie Mercury facing Lake Geneva.
Completed in 1450 and placed in the square facing the Basilica of St. Anthony, his equestrian statue of Erasmo ( better known as the Gattamelata, or " Honey-Cat ") was the first example of such a monument since ancient times.
His statue in Destiny's garden is in line with the statues of the other Endless, facing the opposite direction, likely representing his aversion to his principles and obligations, and seclusion from his siblings, and his sigil and portrait ( the fourth in chronologically-ordered row ) in Destiny's gallery are draped with a cloth.
They discover a series of tunnels hidden behind a statue in Willie's room and set out to explore them, facing many booby-trapped rooms and a room filled with bugs along the way.
In the square dedicated to him, facing the palace of the Archiginnasio, the ancient seat of the University of Bologna, a big marble statue has been erected to the scientist while observing one of his famous frog experiments.
On the side facing the High Street, there is a statue of Rhodes over the main entrance, with Edward VII and George V beneath.
However, these three statues were later speculatively ' identified ' by the writer Daniel Defoe ( 1659 – 1731 ) as Caesar ( 100 – 44 BC ) and Pompey ( 106 – 48 BC ) responsible for the decline of the Roman republic facing a statue of Cicero ( 106 – 43 BC ), the defender of the Republic.
A statue of a Union soldier stands next to the fountain facing south to guard against the return of southern raiders.
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.
A 19th century statue of Henry Grattan, one of the leading members of the old Irish Parliament, stands facing Trinity College ( though the statue is badly obscured by planted trees ).
Known as ' Sackville Street ' until 1924, it was renamed in honour of Daniel O ' Connell, a nationalist leader of the early nineteenth century whose statue stands at the lower end of the street, facing O ' Connell Bridge.
" The statue is an 83cm-high standing Buddha with palms facing forward, cast in bronze and covered in gold leaf.
Opened in July 1872 by Queen Victoria, with the statue of Albert ceremonially " seated " in 1875, the memorial consists of an ornate canopy or pavilion, in the style of a Gothic ciborium over the high altar of a church, containing a statue of the prince facing south.
It is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a parish church, located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, directly across the street from Rockefeller Center and specifically facing the Atlas statue.
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