Costume may also refer to the artistic arrangement of accessories in a picture, statue, poem, or play, appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described, or to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character other than their regular persona at a social event such as a masquerade, a fancy dress party or in an artistic theatrical performance.

Some scholars believe that the statue may not have been Tlaloc at all but his sister or some other female deity.

The heroon at Vergina in Greek Macedonia ( the ancient city of Aegae – Αἰγαί ) is thought to have been dedicated to the worship of the family of Alexander the Great and may have housed the cult statue of Philip.

The torso of Athena in the École des Beaux-Arts at Paris, which has unfortunately lost its head, may perhaps best serve to help our imagination in reconstructing the original statue.

Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph, screen display, and as well as a three-dimensional, such as a statue or hologram.

They include a colossal bust in the Vatican, a bust in the Louvre ( the Antinous Mondragone ), a bas-relief from the Villa Albani, a statue in the Capitoline museum ( the so-called Capitoline Antinous, now accepted to be a portrayal of Hermes ), another in Berlin, another in the Lateran and one in the Fitzwilliam Museum ; and many more may be seen in museums across Europe.

The photographs at times suggest the silhouette of a statue of the Virgin Mary but the images are usually subject to varying interpretations, and critics suggest that they may just be due to various visual effects of unknown origin.

A new article by Cecelia Klein ( 2008 ) argues that the famous Coatlicue statue in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico, and several other complete and fragmentary versions, may actually represent a personified snake skirt.

Akass tells Tintin that in order to kill him, he will have liquid polyester poured over him, so that he may be turned into a statue, be " signed " by César, and authenticated by a ( presumably corrupt ) art expert.

" It may originally have formed part of a Jupiter statue in the forum of the Roman town.

Queen Tiye, whose husband, Amenhotep III, may have been depicted to her right in this broken statue

His first work may have been at the age of sixteen, an equestrian wooden statue for the funeral of Azzo Ubaldini.

The Albert Memorial was not the first revivalist design for a canopied statue in a Gothic style-the Scott Monument in Edinburgh had been designed by George Meikle Kemp over twenty years earlier, and may itself have influenced Worthington's designs for Manchester.

Performers may do acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon twisting, card tricks, caricatures, clowning, comedy, contortions and escapes, dance, singing, fiddling, fire eating, fire breathing, fortune-telling, juggling, magic, mime and a mime variation where the artist performs as a living statue, musical performance, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or recite poetry or prose as a bard, street art such as sketching and painting, street theatre, sword swallowing, and even put on a flea circus.

" Taking all things into consideration, it seems that we must give the credit of erecting this, the world's most wonderful statue, to Khafre, but always with this reservation: that there is not one single contemporary inscription which connects the Sphinx with Khafre ; so, sound as it may appear, we must treat the evidence as circumstantial, until such time as a lucky turn of the spade of the excavator will reveal to the world a definite reference to the erection of the Sphinx.

Queen Tiye, whose husband, Amenhotep III, may have been depicted to her right in this broken statue

It was mounted on a sled, and may have been a cult statue.

Inspiration for the " Iron Maiden " may come from the Carthaginian execution of Marcus Atilius Regulus, as it was recorded in a passage in Tertullian's " To the Martyrs " ( Chapter 4 ) and Augustine of Hippo's The City of God ( I. 15 ) in which the Carthaginians " packed him into a tight wooden box, spiked with sharp nails on all sides, so that he could not lean in any direction without being pierced ", or by the account of Nabis of Sparta's deadly statue of his wife, the Apega.

We now transfer to you, Mr. Minister, this great statue and trust that it may forever stand the pledge of friendship between France and the Great Republic of the United States.

His age is uncertain, however in the episode " Arctic Circles " he states that he has served for " seven and a half centuries ", if this is approximate of the 17 incarnations of Duckula, his age is probably 800 + years old and he may have started his service to the Family Duckula around the time of Count Duckula The 1st or shortly afterwards, (' The Rest Is History ' almost exactly acertains this ) which is further confirmed by the episode " One Stormy Night " in which a stone statue of Count Duckula The 4th is animated during a thunder storm and doesn't seem to recognise Igor yet presumes he is a servant.

Alternatively the statue may depict Ankhenesmerire II as the divine mother.

Nichiren Shū issue calligraphic Gohonzons to its members, but statue arrangements may also be used to represent the Gohonzon.

The shrine has an altar, a water channel, and hole in the center, in which a statue of Parvati may have been worshipped.

This statue may also represent Alki Point which was originally called New York-Alki by John Low and Lee Terry who claimed the settlement and named it after New York, their state of origin.

When you stand before the barrel-vaulted colonnade you have the impression that the statue at the end is at a considerable distance, yet it is actually only a few feet away.

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.

Other scholars conclude that the Abomination of Desolation refers to the Crucifixion, an attempt by the emperor Hadrian to erect a statue to Jupiter in the Jewish temple, or an attempt by Caligula to have a statue depicting him as Zeus built in the temple.

This famous statue of Hadrian in Greek dress was revealed in 2008 to have been forged in the Victorian era by cobbling together a head of Hadrian and an unknown body.

John Francis Wilson thinks it possible to have been a pagan bronze statue whose true identity had been forgotten ; some have thought it to be Aesculapius, the God of healing, but the description of the standing figure and the woman kneeling in supplication is precisely that found on coins depicting the bearded emperor Hadrian reaching out to a female figure symbolizing a province kneeling before him.

While there he is said to have encountered a statue of Alexander the Great, and realized with dissatisfaction he was now at an age when Alexander had the world at his feet, while he had achieved comparatively little.

Works of embellishment were not confined to churches alone: excavations at the site of the Great Palace of Constantinople have yielded several high-quality mosaics dating from Justinian's reign, and a column topped by a bronze statue of Justinian on horseback and dressed in a military costume was erected in the Augustaeum in Constantinople in 543.

The Seattle Washington, Jordan River Utah, and México City México Temples each have a 4. 6 meter casting of this statue.

Having discovered the entrance, Solomon found an idol inside that had in its mouth a silver tablet saying in Greek ( a language not thought by modern scholars to have existed 1000 years before the time of Solomon ) that the statue was of Shaddad, the son of ' Ad, and that it had reigned over a million cities, rode on a million horses, had under it a million vassals and slew a million warriors, yet it could not resist the angel of death.

This statue is believed to have been over high, and it similarly stood at a harbor entrance and carried a light to guide ships.

* Three small apple trees, said to have been grown from cuttings taken from the apple trees in Sir Isaac Newton's garden, are planted by the archway containing a statue of Archimedes in his bath by Thompson Dagnall.

In December 1916 on unveiling a statue of Gladstone, Lord Rosebery speculated that Gladstone's view of British involvement in the Great War would not have been favourable.

The Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue, thought to have been executed in bronze, commissioned some time between 230 BC – 220 BC by Attalos I of Pergamon to honor his victory over the Galatians

A more famous momument, a full-faced statue carved in rock mentioned by Pausanias is a statue of Cybele, said by Pausianias to have been carved by Broteas is in fact Hittite.

It has been suggested that these might have represented the head, arms and legs of a deity, since one of the commonest kinds of statue found in these temples is a fat woman — a symbol of fertility.

Also a damaged statue of St Cuthbert, holding the head of the king St Oswald ( whose head was reputed to have been buried with Cuthbert's body )

The statue is believed to have been sculpted by Greek artist Praxiteles and is now on display to the public in a dedicated museum in the city, after having been on show at the Chamber of Deputies of Rome, and in Aichi, Japan.

Her father, King Philip, known as " le Bel " ( the Fair ) because of his good looks, was a strangely unemotional man ; contemporaries described him as " neither a man nor a beast, but a statue "; modern historians have noted that he " cultivated a reputation for Christian kingship and showed few weaknesses of the flesh ".

memorials to H M Stanley have recently been erected in St Asaph ( which has caused local controversy for being phalic shaped ) and in Denbigh ( a statue of H M Stanley with an outstretched hand ).

There is some confusion over the exact site of the Battle of Bannockburn, although most modern historians agree that the traditional site, where a visitor centre and statue have been erected, is not the correct one.

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