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What would you do with an authentic Roman column given to you by a fascist? Make the pavement on the side where the inscription is not visible and let the the inscription fade to oblivion. No easy answer. here is a close up of the inscription
One of two views of the Bennington Battle Monument in Bennington, Vermont, USA, seen on February 14, 2013. The 306 foot tall obelisk commemorates the Battle of Bennington, which took place in 1777, during the American Revolution. My friend Duane (cyberastrofolkie), standing at the base of the monument, gives perspective to its size.
St Nicholas, Wickham, Hampshire
"To the memory of the most illustrious Knight William Uvedale who died on the 8th day of January 1615 aged 56.
Reader you wish to know who it is that is interred in this tomb; he is the flower of the Uvedales, and the glory of his house, you want the extent of his life: six and fifty Decembers.
What children were there: thrice three, or his spouse, Mary renowned of Norton stock, whose piety will live on after her ashes in this tomb"
Born in 1559, he was the Treasurer of the Kings Privy Chamber and Sheriff of Hants in 1594.
He married Mary Norton the daughter of Richard Norton o Rotherfeils and Rose Elizabeth Wayte. She was born 1565 and after her husband died in 1615 she took over his role in the Manorial Courts held in 1616, 1620 and 1623.
She died around 1634.
They had five daughters: Catherine who married Sir Edward Underhill. Honor who married Sir Francis Neale of Warnford. Mary who married Sir Edward Banister. Jane who was still alive in 1615. Susan who married Thomas Bilson.
They also had four sons: John the eldest is the small child represented with the skull. He was born the 16th April 1580. Hurriedly baptised as he was sickly and was buried the following day.
in 1581 Richard was born. He was also responsible for the construction of this monument.
He was educated at Queens college, Oxford in 1598 and 1600 at the inner Temple.
1613 he was knighted
1614 Elected MP for Hampshire
1621 Elected MP for Newport, Isle of Wight
1624 Eected MP for Portsmouth and 1625 Petersfield.
He sat until 1629 when parliament was abolished, although in 1640 he sat in bothe the short and Long Parliament.
Declared himself for the Royalist cause during the Civil War and sat in the kings Parliament at Oxford where he was also Treasurer-at-war.
As a result of his support he lost much of his land and wealth and was barred from Parliament under the commonwealth.
he firstly married Anne Carey of Hunsdon, Hertford, and secondly Hon. Victoria Cary daughter of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland.
He and Victoria had two daughters, Victoria who married Sir Richard corbett Bart, Chairman of the Committee of elections. And Elizabeth who became Countess of Carlisle as is buriedin the nave.
Richard died aged 70 in 1652 and was interred with this monument.
Monument erected in the memory of Alexander Murray, son of a shepherd, who taught himself to read and write and became a professor of Oriental Languages at Edinburgh University in 1812 and died the following year at the age of 37.
Bronze relief panels wrap round the plinth (interrupted at the
sides by the supporters): the front (to the south) has a large
raised rectangular panel displaying the names of the fallen in
raised lettering, flanked on the left by relief figures of an
airman and a sailor and on the right by 2 soldiers; the left
return depicts a soldier tended by a nurse, and the right-hand
return depicts a soldier with wife and child; and the rear is
filled with figures of soldiers, including stretcher-bearers
carrying a casualty and a line of men blinded by gas.
The supporters have over-life-size statues of seated figures:
to the east, a woman with a baby on her lap, and to the west a
defiant soldier grasping his rifle by the muzzle (the latter
inscribed "1923 W.Marsden").
Breckinridge's Division suffered 1800 casualties in less than an hour. Breckinridge, a Kentuckian, rode down to the troops from his state, crying "My poor Orphans! You have been cut to pieces!". The Kentucky brigade, who had lost a third of their strength and their commander Brig General Roger Hanson in the fighting at the ford, was to become renowned as the Orphan Brigade. Utterly broken, neither army continued the fighting, and after another four days Bragg retreated, ending the battle.
McFladden's Farm, Stones River National Battlefield, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Monument to Dr. José Rizal (1861-96), Philippine nationalist, author, poet, and physician who was executed at this location in Manila by the Spanish authorities for his revoltionary activities. (Rick Green photo.)
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Eagle-eyed viewers will spot the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building among other well-known features.
Originally published at sixtwothree.org/photos/188.
Camera: Leica X2 + B+W Polfilter
Picture taken in Monument Valley by my wife. Underexposed 1 stop and developed in LR.
Title: Column of Marcus Aurelius
Other title: Column of Marcus Aurelius (Rome, Italy)
Date: circa 183–190
Current location: Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Description of work: The historic illustrations included in this project were originally published during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many originally appeared in publications that predated the widespread use of photography for art documentation. These engravings, line drawings, and plans reflect both the technological and aesthetic standards of their time. By their very nature, they often represent subjective interpretations of the monuments and works depicted, and as such they offer fascinating insights into the cultural values of art and architectural history during the formative years of these disciplines. In the context of these images the terms ""reconstruction"" and ""rendering"" have been used to distinguish between the artists' speculative reconstruction of a ruined work from the artists' perspective drawing or rendition of the design.
Description of view: includes measurements
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Manuscripts and Books
Style of work: Ancient: Roman Imperial
Culture: Roman
Measurements: 16.9H X 5.2W cm
Source: Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921, p. 105. Provided courtesy of Allan Kohl.
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG, TIFF archived offline
Image size: 1330H X 410W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for all uses as a work in the public domain.
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2007-0528.jpg
Record ID: WB2007-0528
Sub collection: monuments
The Sanctuary of Dionysos in the Attic deme of Ikaria/Ikarion.
Ikarion at Pleiades and at Perseus (Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites.
Write-up on Ikarion by Elizabeth King Filioti.
The figure at Cherhill was first cut in 1780 by a Dr Christopher Alsop, of Calne, and was created by stripping away the turf to expose the chalk hillside beneath. Its original size was 50m by 67m. Dr Alsop, who was Guild Steward of the Borough of Calne, has been called "the mad doctor", and is reported to have directed the making of the horse from a distance, shouting through a megaphone from below Labour-in-Vain Hill.
Cherhill Monument is a 38 metre stone obelisk erected by Third Marquis of Lansdowne to the designs of Sir Charles Barry to commemorate his ancestor, Sir William Petty in 1845.
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Beicio o Chippenham > Salisbury //
Cycling from Chippenham > Salisbury.
Sculptor Donald De Lue conveys the courage and sacrifice in this monument. As one soldier lays dead another fights to protect the southern banner. Although all of his ammunition is gone, he swings his "Mississippi Rifle" in defense.
Gettysburg National Military Park
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
July 2012
A leaden sky begins to break above the monument, which was still closed to visitors as of this particular day. Repairs were still being made to the structure following a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in August 2011. The quake was one of the strongest on record in the eastern United States.
Jan Kiliński was a Warsaw shoemaker who became a hero of the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising. After the failure of the uprising, he was arrested by the Prussian authorities and handed over to the Russians. After several years of exile in Russia he eventually returned to Warsaw, where he died on 28th January 1819.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kili%C5%84ski
Kiliński’s statue is the work of sculptor Stanisław Jackowski and was unveiled in its original location in Krasińskich Square on 19th April 1936.
In 1942 it was removed by the occupying Germans in retaliation for a “minor sabotage” operation by a young Polish resistance fighter called Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski (code name “Alek”)
Minor sabotage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_sabotage
Soon after the German occupation of Warsaw began in 1939, they had placed a large plaque over the inscription on the Mikołaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus) monument in front of the Staszic Palace, proclaiming Copernicus to have been German. On 11th February 1942, Dawidowski removed and hid the plaque, and the Germans responded by hiding the Jan Kiliński statue in the vaults of the National Museum. Dawidowski and his comrades in the Szare Szeregi organisation retaliated by daubing the museum with graffiti which stated: “People of Warsaw - I am here - Jan Kiliński”, and adding a new plaque to the Copernicus monument on which they had written the following words: “For the removal of the Kiliński statue I am extending winter by two months - Kopernik”….
Szare Szeregi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Ranks
After the war the Kiliński statue was returned to Krasińskich Square, before being relocated to Podwale Street in 1959.