by Susan | Jul 29, 2019 | Monuments
This sculpture was installed in 2000 in a courtyard at Georgetown University Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. According to the artist, Michael Alfano, ethics means the study of ideal conduct. To that end, the sculpture tries to provide a model for the ideal conduct...
by Susan | Jul 22, 2019 | Monuments
This statue, by Jacques Lipchitz, was commissioned by the City of Philadelphia to fulfill a public art requirement in what is now called Thomas Paine Plaza, in front of the new Municipal Services Building across from City Hall. In 1972 it was in Italy, awaiting...
by Susan | Jul 15, 2019 | Monuments
The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace are bronze statue groups on Lincoln Memorial Circle in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C.. Commissioned in 1929 to complement the plaza constructed on the east side of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the Arlington Memorial...
by Susan | Jul 8, 2019 | Monuments
Apotheosis of Democracy is on the United States Capitol House of Representatives portico’s east front in Washington, D.C. The pediment’s center focal point is the figure of allegorical Peace, which is dressed in armor and is depicted protecting Genius....
by Susan | Jul 1, 2019 | Monuments
Installed on the south side exterior of Philadelphia’s Independence Visitor’s Center in 2003, Alison Sky’s Indelible is a site-specific, narrative work intended to create awareness about American history that has gone undisclosed. The artwork is a stucco relief of a...
by Susan | Jun 24, 2019 | Monuments
In September 2017 the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines unveiled a statue of the late human rights lawyer Jose “Pepe” Diokno, appointed by President Corazon Aquino as the founding chairman of the country’s watchdog agency against rights...
