The southern apex of the triangle would be dotted with monumental buildings, among them apartments and shops.
They pointed to Mr de Weldon's other monumental works, among them his "space tribute", a statue of an unusually muscular man hurling a Saturn rocket into orbit.
At Gisèle Croës of Brussels some very large bronzes from ancient China likewise bear witness to the search for monumental art among rising numbers of super-rich art buyers.
There have been more analytically incisive books on Chaplin – Parker Tyler's superb Chaplin: Last of the Clowns, for instance – and more comprehensive ones, David Robinson's monumental biography among them, but Ackroyd's is the most haunting.
His work now stands among monumental bronzes by Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworthh, as well as more recent work by famous names such as Antony Gormley, Anthony Caro and Julian Opie.
In the realm of technology, the audio capacity of the compact disc was set at 74 minutes in the early 1980s, purportedly to accommodate a complete recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Symphony No. 9 has also been used to mark monumental public events, among the most moving of which took place on Christmas Day 1989 in Berlin.
Highlights of that game have cropped up in a variety of montages over the years — biggest comebacks, biggest blown leads, monumental officiating bloopers, among others — and with the Giants set to return to San Francisco on Sunday for the N.F.C. championship game, there is no doubt the final play will see even more airtime.
The same procedure can be used as the basis of a statistical extrapolation aimed at evaluating the probability distributions of collapse and damage among monumental buildings that are similar with regard to both the macroelement typologies and the logical diagram.
"I've loved Rodin's work since I first came to this museum years ago," says Maliphant, standing among these monumental bronzes.
Titled "Pied Piper Playing Under the Aqueduct," it shows the artist, tall and lean, dressed in a floral mini and fishnet stockings walking among the monumental columns of an aqueduct in Rio de Janeiro.
