Historian Angela Howard notes that along the spirit ways of the auxiliary tombs such as Li Xianhui's the statues are smaller, of lesser quality, and fewer in number than the main spirit way of Qianling leading to Gaozong and Wu's burial.
In her new collection, Oh My Head, Ms. Sawyer focuses on nine of them, ranging from the familiar (like the smiley face and the Statue of Liberty) to the lesser known (like Haida, above, inspired by Native American totem poles).
Of lesser importance but very popular with the children, is a small statue of a female kappa water sprite and her child.
He is posed in the deity's lesser role – "bringer of peace" – a transparent piece of propaganda that adds to this statue's unique blend of genius and absurdity.
Like the kouros, the kore type was inspired by Egyptian and, to a lesser degree, Mesopotamian art; prototypes for the stance of the Greek maidens are found particularly in statues and statuettes of the Egyptian New Kingdom.
The Lesser Horde (an administrative division of the Mongol empire) was proclaimed here.Yet near this statue stands a house where Russia's great poet, Alexander Pushkin, stayed.
And the reconciliation of Lesser's penitent Leontes and Fleetwood's wronged Hermione prompts one's tears as her statue comes to life.
Traditional African (or precolonial) mud houses, markets, shrines, and statues are found in small towns as well as in Abomey, Porto-Novo, and, to a lesser degree, Cotonou, and the Somba region in the northwest has traditional thatched-roof, turreted houses.
Statues usually imply respect.
Anything else is lesser".
