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The giant statues of Tirthankars were mostly created through rock carving in the 14th-15th century and were grossly defaced during the first assault of Mughals in the 16th century.
The caves are known as Siddhachal Caves or Siddhanchal Jain Collosi and are briiliant work of art.
Taken in Gwalior, Madhyapradesh, India
Seen unsurprisingly in Nottingham against the backdrop of the quite beautiful Prudential Building. Here's a link to a Nottingham Post article which says it is the most splendid Victorian building in the City - www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-opinion/nine-best-victor...
As for Clough, an eccentric genius who could get quite ordinary players to play like world beaters but he did it because of the eye for footballing talent in his assistant Peter Taylor. A film about him 'The Damned United' is an insight into the often controversial man who put both Derby County and Nottingham Forest Football Clubs on the map.
Chicago - "The Bowman" - By Ivan Mestrovic
From Wikipedia:
The Bowman and The Spearman, also known as Indians,[1] are two bronze equestrian sculptures standing as gatekeepers in Congress Plaza, at the intersection of Congress Drive and Michigan Avenue in Grant Park, Chicago, United States. The sculptures were made in Zagreb by Yugoslavian and Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović and installed at the entrance of the parkway in 1928. The pair of sculptures was funded by the Benjamin Ferguson Fund.[2]
One author said of these works, "Meštrović's finest monumental sculptures are his Chicago Indians (1926–27), they are not too obviously stylized: the muscles on the horsemen are almost anatomically realistic ... These statues show how much more important true sculptural feeling is than ideology, for Meštrović hardly knew anything about the ideals of the American Indians and they certainly did not move him,"[3]
An unusual aspect of the sculptures is that the figures in both sculptures are missing their weapons, the bow and arrow and the spear.
On a small piece of green in Park Plaza, a small walk away from both Boston Common and Boston Public Garden, is a statue of Lincoln and an African-American man who was freed by declaration. The statue was placed in this location on December 6, 1879.