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July 13, 2021: Ellis Island welcomes a new Statue and Rise and Resist was there with a message about US Immigration.
Angel,
Melbourne Cemetery.
One of my sons is in hospital at the moment so I'm feeling sad. It's so strange not having him near me and I pray he'll be well, and home again soon.
Peter Denny FRSE LLD (25 October 1821 – 22 August 1895) was a shipbuilder and shipowner based in Dumbarton, Scotland. Denny was the son of William Denny (1779-1833) and his wife Christeanne Macintyre. He was first apprenticed to a local lawyer and then to the Dumbarton glassworks. Aged 21 he returned to shipbuilding, which was the established family occupation, and worked as a bookkeeper for Robert Napier and Sons. Quoted from Wikipedia
The people of Brussels don’t simply look upon the cute statuette and show it to tourists. The Manneken Pis plays a full part in the city’s annual calendar and even has an outfit for every occasion. Peeing boy's wardrobe ranges from Santa suits to national costumes from countries around the world. One of the recent additions is a red leather Chinese costume presented by the city of Haining, China. On special occasions, brass-bands would play here and Manneken Pis would be hooked up to different flavours of Belgian beer, which is poured from his fountain tip and given out to the public. With such love and care for the peeing boy, who needs Big Ben? :-)
To give peeing boy a playmate, another statue was built called Jeanneke Pis in the 80s. This other statue is a little girl fountain, but she is lesser known and hides in an alleyway a short distance away from Mannekin Pis.
statues and busts adorning the corridors of the Uffizi Galleries was gathered by the Medici family and is made up of Roman copies after lost Greek originals.
In the southern states of Brasil, the Chimarrão (mate) is the most traditional beverage. It's prepared with yerba mate (llex paraguariensis) in a Cuia (gourd). As São Chico is a sooooo traditional little town, everyone offers you a gourd of mate when you do a visit. So, there is also a monument at downtown to represent this tradition.
When we travel it's hard for me to keep where we have been straight.
I remember that this guy was part of a larger tableaux in a church. He's carved wood. (I have no idea why people who have an awareness of God keep getting portrayed as mystics...)
I don't remember which church, though I am fairly sure it was in New York.
The carving is very small. And he looked pretty mysterious, making me think of a fantasy novel with wizards and rangers more than a church guy.
I could see him in a tavern sitting off in a quiet corner, sipping a beer while Frodo makes a fool of himself with a certain magical ring.
So that's the way I made this image: a few painted layers and some brush stylings. I added deep shadows around the fringes of the shot and where the hood covers his eyes. Then I bathed the center part of the image with golden light.
I added a couple of layers of blur and texture to give it a graphic novel feel. Finally I added deeper brush strokes so it would look like I spent hours with a paint brush whilst starving in a garret somewhere a stones throw from the river Seine.
This image presents itself best at a large size...and looks pretty cheesy when viewed here. So, if you can squeeze a couple of extra seconds into your visit, can I suggest you view it large?
This should be the last in the series of "trying to turn a statue into a painting kinda thing" for a while.
Tuh-fricking-dum.
Street portrait & close-up of a little girl performing as a living statue at the annual Dickens Festival in Deventer, Overijssel, The Netherlands.
© Mieneke Andeweg-van Rijn 2016
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"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues."
Phillips Brooks
Statue on Brighton Beach, early one morning :)
The Angel is a memorial to King Edward VII, sculpted by Newbury Trent.
This statue of young male god is dated to the time of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD).
This has usually been identified as Mercury though there is some uncertainty. The figure has the following god attributes (symbols): a winged hat (petasos), a staff with two serpents (caduceus) in his right hand, and winged feet. The money bag in his left hand is said to be a later addition.
The statue stands in the corridor surrounding the courtyard at Palazzo Nuovo.
Capitoline Museum, Rome; July 2019
History: The statue is signed by Andries Carpentiere, a pupil of John van Nost; it was probably cast from the same mould supplied by Van Nost to Sir Nicholas Shireburn of Stonyhurst, Lancashire sometime between 1705 and 1716. This example was probably cast using Montgomeryshire lead from the Llangynog mines owned by the Powis family. Its original position at Powis was as the centrepiece of a fountain in the Baroque water gardens at the foot of the garden terraces which had been largely completed by 1705. The water garden was demolished between 1801 and 1809, and the statue was then moved and re- sited over the W gateway into the courtyard. Some time after this, it was removed to the centre of the courtyard, where G.F.Bodley designed a basin for it. This was unsuccessful, however, although the statue itself remained in the courtyard. Restored in 1987, the lead trophy of arms (based on the original work which formed the source for the group by Antoine Coysevox for Louis XIV) and the stone plinth were added at that time.
Description: Lead statue mounted on a stone base. The statue depicts the winged female figure of Fame borne by Pegasus.
A fine example of Baroque sculpture which forms a dramatic centrepiece at the entrance to the castle, and which is of additional historical interest as it was made for the castle - a relic of the lost water-gardens.