Sentence examples for hold statues from inspiring English sources

There are cracks in the elaborately decorated ceilings above many of the entranceways and alcoves built to hold statues are now empty.

Originally designed to hold statues depicting the ancient Greek intellectuals Aristotle, Ictinus, Archimedes, and Callicrates, they are commonly adorned today with a rather unique piece of artwork: MIT students.

The Saratoga Monument obelisk has four niches, three of which hold statues of American generals: Gates and Schuyler and of Colonel Daniel Morgan.

On a side retable the simulated drapery, appearing to be pulled back by putti, makes a canopy over angled glass cases holding statues of saints.

It holds statues of Shiva, Parvati, and the Buddha.

They hold candles, but originally held statues of the twelve apostles, destroyed in 1906 and were never replaced.

The 33 bays hold 1,001 statues of Kannon-Bosatsu.

Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin hold a statue of Ganesha, a Hindu god.

As we came into the Altis, we passed a group of more than a dozen metal plinths that once held bronze statues of Zeus.

Fundraising efforts were underway for a pedestal to hold the Statue of Liberty, an expensive gift from France that many Americans found especially uninspiring.

This museum, which is in his old apartment in a stoneclad Soviet block, holds 3,000 statues, artefacts and likenesses of Satan.