Bartholdi
Americannoun
noun
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In the most cerebral passages, Aurora prods Bartholdi to reconceive the meaning of his giant feminine statue by considering the way women’s bodies are remembered and dismembered.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022
In an early model of the statue by the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi from 1870, Lady Liberty is depicted holding broken chains in her left hand, a clear reference to emancipation.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2019
Up close, this object from the workshop of Frédéric Bartholdi looks fragile, homemade, almost medieval, an uneven grid of glass and copper rising into the familiar shape of the flame holding against the wind.
From Slate ● May 14, 2019
As designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and delivered to America in 1885, the torch is more than 16-feet tall and 12-feet across.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2018
Tiffany and Company, the famous jewellers, also used this material for the base of the beautiful silver testimonial presented to the French sculptor, Bartholdi.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
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