He looked to the Colossus for inspiration when he hoped to design a statue for the entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said, Egypt. His plan was to sculpt a robed female bearing a torch to guide ships.

A short-lived wonder. The Colossus of Rhodes only enjoyed a short moment of glory. As a mere 56 years after its completion in ...

Edward Berenson, author of Statue of Liberty: A Translatlantic Story, writes that Bartholdi’s concept morphed from “a gigantic female fellah, or Arab peasant” into “a colossal goddess.” ...

The National Park Service notes that "classical images of liberty are often depicted in a female form. The statue was modeled after Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty." The Roman version is ...

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Farmers digging in a citrus grove near Mexico’s Gulf coast have found a striking, 182cm-tall statue of a female figure who may represent an elite woman rather than a goddess, or some mixture of ...

Organisers of a beer festival in Staffordshire are planning to parade a specially-produced statue of a Sumerian goddess in an effort to make the event more female-friendly. The statute of Ninkasi ...

Following a ceremony at Kannonji temple, the statue is expected to be housed at a local museum. The gilt bronze statue Bodhisatva — a female goddess of mercy — is depicted in a sitting ...

What will become the female equivalent of Uncle Sam is about to be unveiled, more than 20 years after its commissioning. The Statue of Liberty is a controversial gift from French politicians with self ...

The Woman Who Saved the Statue of Liberty Georgina Schuyler campaigned for Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus” to be inscribed on a plaque in the monument’s pedestal ...

The statue of Helios, also known as the Colossus of Rhodes, influenced his plans for the eventual construction of Libertas, the subject of the Statue of Liberty ( bit.ly/3fheoj1).