He now contemplated a great work, a colossal statue of Religion.

This colossal project is the result of the work of a team of architects from the academic staff of the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design of the University.

On his return he modelled his colossal " Achilles mourning the loss of Briseis ", a work full of force and passion ; and then he was elected, in 1784, an associate of the Royal Academy and in the following year a full member.

Banks's best-known work is perhaps the colossal group of Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry,

Veteran photojournalist Richard Boyle has been taking his camera to the world's trouble spots for over 20 years ; while he does good work, Boyle's fondness for booze and drugs, and his colossal arrogance, have given him a reputation that's left him practically unemployable.

This work finally halted in 1330 with the castle still not built to its intended height ; by the end of the project, £ 15, 000 had been spent, a colossal sum for the period.

Of the latter, his Christ expelling the Traders from the Temple in the church of the Padri Girolamini, a colossal work, full of expressive " lazzaroni " or beggars from Naples ; also the frescoes of the Triumph of Judith at San Martino, and those in the Tesoro della Certosa, including the subject of Moses and the Brazen Serpent ; and the cupola paintings in the

It is a work so stupendous in scale, so colossal in the sweep of its power, so reckless of ordinary standards of conception or method, so pure an inspiration of a soul burning with passionate visual imagining and a hand magical to work in shape and colour, that it has defied the connoisseurship of three centuries, and has generally ( though not with its first Venetian contemporaries ) passed for an eccentric failure ; while to a few eyes it seems to be so transcendent a monument of human faculty applied to the art pictorial as not to be viewed without awe.

The activities of the extraction of coal from mines to fuel colossal Furnaces to manufacture Steel and Iron on a gigantic scale and the development of the railroad and steam-train throughout Europe and North America are both decidedly Vulcan-like activities and in many ways, the general " business " of the Protestant work ethic and industrialised Western society, is strongly reflected in this archetypal figure.

* Esa-Pekka Salonen gives us his perspective on Turangalîla-Symphonie, including the first time he heard the piece, and how you conduct such a colossal work

This work was especially influential in Florence where there was a love of the colossal, and it may have led to the plans for the Neptune Fountain in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence.

It is critical to note that this work is of colossal size and post-conciliar provenance, and therefore in any of its recensions it has minimal intertextuality with the Apocalypse of Peter, which is known in Greek texts.

The completion of this colossal work accelerated the completion of the entire ring road.

The colossal work is 22 meters long and 11 meters high and dominates the local landscape.

This colossal work addresses the creation of a fantasic and sensual world where scenes are divided in various sexual myths which reinvent classical painting, a dome with more than 40 large female figures moving on an architecture full of vanishing perspective.

In 1977, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease devoted most of one issue to Stevenson's work in which psychiatrist Harold Lief described Stevenson as " a methodical, careful, even cautious, investigator, whose personality is on the obsessive side ... Either he is making a colossal mistake, or he will be known.

The Ruhmeshalle afforded further gauge of unexampled power of production ; here alone is work which, if adequately studied, might have occupied a lifetime ; ninety-two metopes, and, conspicuously, the colossal but feeble figure of Bavaria, 60 ft. high, rank among the boldest experiments.

During the 1830s, he executed the colossal work Victims of the Revolution at Brussels, as well as numerous statues and busts.

A colossal campaign opened to sell more sexual organs of plants and Mrs. Joseph ( `` Shadow of Greatness '' ) Douglas was quoted as saying: `` I would no more sit down without flowers on my table than without serviettes ''.

The last performance which issued from his hand was a colossal bust of his friend, the Count Cicognara.

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

* Liberator Building Society scandal, in which the Liberal Party MP Jabez Balfour was exposed as running several vast fraudulent companies to conceal colossal financial losses.

It was a colossal failure when it premiered as Almaviva ; Paisiello's admirers were extremely indignant, sabotaging the production by whistling and shouting during the entire first act.

He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

The Temple of Olympian Zeus (), also known as the Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian Zeus, is a colossal ruined temple in the centre of the Greek capital Athens that was dedicated to Zeus, king of the Olympian gods.

The building was demolished after the death of Peisistratos and the construction of a colossal new Temple of Olympian Zeus was begun around 520 BC by his sons, Hippias and Hipparchos.

Designed by the architects Antistates, Callaeschrus, Antimachides and Porinus, the Temple of Olympian Zeus was intended to be built of local limestone in the Doric style on a colossal platform measuring 41 m ( 134. 5 feet ) by 108 m ( 353. 5 feet ).

A colossal statue of Hadrian was raised behind the building by the people of Athens in honour of the emperor's generosity.

In Coatlinchan a colossal statue weighing 168 tons was found that was thought to represent Tlaloc.

Like Mansart's dome at Les Invalides ( which he had visited in 1838 ), Walter's dome is double, with a large oculus in the inner dome, through which is seen The Apotheosis of Washington painted on a shell suspended from the supporting ribs, which also support the visible exterior structure and the tholos that supports Freedom, a colossal statue that was added to the top of the dome in 1863.

In the Middle Ages, the Torre delle Milizie and the convent of St. Peter and Domenic were built, and above Constantine's building was erected the Palazzo Rospigliosi ; the two famous colossal marble statues of the " Horse Tamers ", generally identified as the Dioscuri with horses, which now are in the Piazza Quirinale, were originally in this Palazzo.

The gross profit margin in percent on buying and selling each IRC was colossal, but the overhead required to handle the purchase and redemption of these items, which were of extremely low cost and were sold individually, would have exceeded the gross profit.

The eruption was so colossal that the magma chamber under the now destroyed volcano was emptied to the point of collapse.

He escaped death but was subjected to a colossal fine, effectively crippling his power.

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 name Colosseum has long been believed to be derived from a colossal statue of Nero nearby ( the statue of Nero was named after the Colossus of Rhodes ).

Internally it was lavishly decorated with gold-trimmed marble floors, columns, mosaics and colossal statuary.

Yet in spite of Josquin's colossal reputation, which endured until the beginning of the Baroque era and was revived in the 20th century, his biography is shadowy, and we know next to nothing about his personality.

A colossal statue of St Christopher, standing against a pillar near the western entrance and dating from 1413, was destroyed in 1786.

Here he was commissioned to make the colossal series of statues of Christ and the twelve Apostles for the rebuilding of Vor Frue Kirke ( from 1922 known as the Copenhagen Cathedral ) between 1817 and 1829, after its having been destroyed in the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.

This colossal task, which he at first hoped would occupy but two years, eventually cost him twenty-one, and even then it remained incomplete.

The colossal piece was first excavated in the 16th century in the Baths of Caracalla.

Pope Pius IV gave Giambologna his first major commission, the colossal bronze Neptune and subsidiary figures for the Fountain of Neptune ( the base designed by Tommaso Laureti, 1566 ) in Bologna.

This measured a colossal 3. 57 by 2. 95 metres, made up of 192 sheets, and was printed in a first edition of 700 copies, intended to be hung in palaces and, in particular, town halls, after hand-coloring.

The high technology and science of the foundation became its crucial strength in early confrontations, first against far larger local kingdoms that had broken away from the weakening empire but drastically regressed to pre-atomic technology ; then powerful dictators with support from the dying core of the Empire itself, who had similar scientific ability to the Foundation but far more cumbersome, inefficient technology, having always relied on colossal resources.

Both cemeteries such as the Kerameikos in Athens or Lefkandi and sanctuaries such as Olympia, recently-founded Delphi or the Heraion of Samos, first of the colossal free-standing temples, are richly provided with offerings including items from the Near East, from Egypt and from Italy made of exotic materials such as amber or ivory, while exports of Greek pottery demonstrate contact with the Levant coast at such sites as Al Mina and with the region of the Villanovan culture to the north of Rome.

:: If the first movement of a symphony succeeds as a musical statement only by following the rules of traditional sonata form fairly closely, then the Fourth Symphony ’ s opening movement initially comes across as a colossal failure.

She argues, " To redesign social systems we need first to acknowledge their colossal unseen dimensions.

In 1846, shortly after painting the colossal Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort, Chassériau made his first trip to Algeria.

An important sign of Hitler's changed perceptions about Britain was his decision in January 1939 to give first priority to the Kriegsmarine in relates in the allocation of money, skilled workers, and raw materials and to launch the Plan Z to build a colossal Kriegsmarine of 10 battleships, 16 " pocket battleships ", 8 aircraft carriers, 5 heavy cruisers, 36 light cruisers, and 249 U-boats by 1944 to crush the Royal Navy.

Exhibits invite visitors to learn about the process of the statue ’ s creation from Italian-born artist Giuseppe Moretti ’ s first clay model to the unprecedented casting of over 100, 000 pounds of iron to create the colossal ironman in final form.

* In several works, Arthur C. Clarke writes about a colossal hollow tube, first described in " Rendezvous with Rama " ( 1973 ), and inhabited by different races.

He designed two of the state's most colossal bridges, the Lake Washington Floating Bridge and the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

This colossal marble sculptural group represents the myth of Dirce first wife of Lykos, King of Thebes.

He proved himself a colossal competitor in English first class cricket but was denied the international stage most fitting to his volcanic power.

The tympanum, at least during the first years, probably had a colossal Star, as it can be seen on the Augustan coins.

It was cast at the Munich foundry of J. B. Stiglmair between 1844 and 1850 and is the first colossal statue since Classical Antiquity to consist entirely of cast bronze.

Kerala Varma has been called " a colossal Renaissance figure in 19th century Kerala " and " perhaps the first of the major language writers who consciously and deliberately began to absorb and celebrate the Western influence " on his native literature.

Butters is the first of the boys that Trent confronts when his parents forced him to go outside to play and not listen to his screams, which results in a hospital stay for Butters, who sustains, according to the Doctor, a number of childhood pranks, including a massive snuggie, two Indian sunburns, a charlie horse, a second degree titty-twister, a " colossal " swirlie, a noogie and something called a " Polish bike ride " ( Which has no cure ).

Peter Semenov was the first European to see the scenic panorama of the Tengri Tag, and its most beautiful peak, the colossal Khan Tengri ( in 1847 ).