In the north transept is a freestanding tombchest monument to Bishop Pearson who died in 1686, designed by Arthur Blomfield and carved by Nicholas Earp, with a recumbent effigy by Matthew Noble.
Barye gradually gained a reputation as a monumental sculptor with government commissions for images of wild animals in the 1830s, figure groups and portraits for the facade of the Louvre in the 1850s, and freestanding Napoleonic monuments in the 1860s.
This local sandstone is very strong and not prone to shearing or fracturing, allowing the sculptors at Quiriguá to erect the tallest freestanding stone monuments in the Americas.
Temples and tombs were ideally executed in stone with relief decoration on their walls and were filled with stone and wooden statuary, inscribed and decorated stelae (freestanding small stone monuments), and, in their inner areas, composite works of art in precious materials.
Choragic monument, large, freestanding pedestal that formed the display base for an athletic or choral prize won at an ancient Greek festival.
Several brokers said that they appreciated Keystone's monument signs, freestanding marquee signs that note not only Keystone's ownership of a building but also list the tenants.
The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument: A freestanding Doric column in Fort Greene memorializing all those who died while kept prisoner on the British ships just off the shore of Brooklyn, in Wallabout Bay.
The representation of a mosaic mask on a stela (an upright, freestanding stone slab functioning as a commemorative monument) at Seibal, Guatemala (590 ce), established the early use of the technique in Maya territory, but it became best known from the few specimens surviving from the time of the Aztec empire (c. 1376 1519) and from descriptions of others left by the Spanish conquerors.
Although the Calukyas did introduce freestanding temples, most of their patronage extended to rock-cut monuments.
