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

A fine example is the statue of the Sacred gate Kouros which was found at the cemetery of Dipylon in Athens ( Dipylon Kouros ).

It is considered that he created also the New York kouros, which is the oldest fully preserved statue of Kouros type, and seems to be the incarnation of the god himself.

The statue throws some light on an artistic centre which, with an independently developed harder, simpler, and heavier style, restricts Ionian influence in Athens.

The famous Apollo of Mantua and its variants are early forms of the Apollo Citharoedus statue type, in which the god holds the cithara in his left arm.

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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.

However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.

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.

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.

The statue, which is colossal and entitled Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, was not finished till four years after.

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

His popularity was now such that the Eternal Diet of Regensburg, which met in 1802, resolved to erect a statue in his honor and to give him the title of savior of his country, but Charles refused both distinctions.

This statue is the centerpiece of Lubbock's Walk of Fame, which honors notable people who contributed to Lubbock's musical history.

* A statue of him was installed in front of one of the houses which Bartók owned in the hills above Budapest.

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.

The peak and statue can be accessed via a narrow road or by the 3. 8 kilometre ( 2. 4 mi ) Corcovado Rack Railway which was opened in 1884 and refurbished in 1980.

One of his earliest surviving works, under the guidance of his anatomy teacher, Dimitrie Gerota, is a masterfully rendered écorché ( statue of a man with skin removed to reveal the muscles underneath ) which was exhibited at the Romanian Athenaeum in 1903.

On 17 January 2011, police in Nemi, Italy, announced that they believed they had discovered the site of Caligula's burial, after arresting a thief caught smuggling a statue which they believed to be of the emperor.

Near the center is a CCC honor statue, which can be found in 30 different states in the country.

On the base of the statue were inscribed the opening words of the Scotland Act: " There Shall Be A Scottish Parliament ", a phrase to which Dewar himself famously said, " I like that!

A small gold statue ( approximately 0. 62 kg / 1. 37 lb ) cost 250 beans.

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.

The statue itself, which cost no more than £ 25, was constructed of bricks and mortar, and finished in a manner that gave it the appearance of stone " at least to the eyes of common spectators ".

At the cost of $ 20, 000 to build, the group commissioned artist Shell Scott to construct the statue which was built on a metal frame and covered in cement, fiberglass, cardboard, and insulation.

The final date of completion is not known, but as late as 1735 the Duchess was haggling with Rysbrack over the cost of Queen Anne's statue placed in the library.

The transportation of the statue from Russia to Cataño cost $ 2. 4 million.

Constructed by John Bacon, the life-sized statue of Blackstone in his judicial robes cost £ 539, and has rested in the Codrington Library since 1872.

The capital was eventually rebuilt at great cost, and an equestrian statue of King Joseph still dominates Lisbon's main plaza.

The cost of the statue, exclusive of installation, was $ 23, 796. 82.

The statue cost US $ 20, 000, a substantial sum at the time, given that South Vietnam was a developing country, but she was undeterred by criticism about largesse.

The memorial was built at a cost of $ 200, 000, collected from private donations, and features a life-size statue of O ' Bannon sitting on a park bench.

For reasons of cost and weight, copper is retained like matter for the clothes industry of the statue.

Initially, Wren favoured a statue of a phoenix with outstretched wings rising from the ashes, but as the column neared completion he decided instead on a 15 ft statue either of Charles II, or a sword-wielding female to represent a triumphant London ; the cost of either being estimated at £ 1, 050.

The eight hundred guinea cost of the statue ( made by Messrs. Willis of London ) had been raised by public subscription.

In 2011, this statue was leased to the University of Memphis for the cost of $ 1 and was moved to the campus in April 2012.

In the early 2000s, the statue was restored ; the more than $ 22, 000 cost covered cleaning of the statue, refinishing of the patina, adding protective coating, and restoring the granite pedestal.

In the 1980s, San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery had the city commission a statue of Fallon raising the U. S. flag in San Jose at a cost of over $ 800, 000.

Much of the cost of the statue was met by donations from the miners of his pits.

The statue cost approximately £ 112, 000 half of which was raised by fans via the Ted Bates Trust and the other half met by Southampton Football Club.

A bronze statue of Elliott by Neville Northey Burnard, paid for by the people of Sheffield and Rotherham, was erected in 1854 in Sheffield market-place at a cost of £ 600.

Canonsburg town fathers had plans to erect a statue in Vinton's honor, but Vinton himself vetoed the idea noting that the $ 100, 000 planned cost could go to far more important town needs.