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But nothing caught the eye like the colossal head of William Shakespeare emerging from an African carpet.

The colossal head of Ramasses II, which weighs more than seven tons, is still one of the largest pieces at the museum.

Her Recording Angel (2006 07) and Colossal Head of Daphne (installed 2008) were both commissioned by and are located in Nashville, Tennessee.

Western museums have been filled with Egyptian marvels for centuries, not least the British Museum, with its colossal head of Ramses II and the multilingual Rosetta Stone.

Shelley's interest in Egyptology was already established, as revealed by some of the imagery of an earlier poem, Alastor, but perhaps it had been rekindled in part by the news of the excavation of the colossal head of Rameses II.

Reviving the ancient Egyptian practice of carving gargantuan statues of political figures in natural formations of rock, he executed from a six-ton block of marble a colossal head of President Abraham Lincoln that was placed in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.

Chugging down a row of trees, the pair of canopy shakers in Paul Meador's orange grove here seem like a cross between a bulldozer and a hairbrush, their hungry steel bristles working through the tree crowns as if untangling colossal heads of hair.

For his first New York show, several pieces have been installed at Deitch's hangarlike space, among them colossal heads of wide-eyed women with flowers twined in their hair, and gold-skinned nudes, one of which is a reference to ancient Buddhist sculptures of nature spirits.

Mexico donated a resin replica of an Olmec colossal head to Belgium; it is on display in the Musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.

Monument Q was the eleventh colossal head to be discovered.

The show's largest piece is a colossal head, combining features of the Buddha with the artist's self-portrait, molded from incense ash collected from Buddhist temples.