Yet, the monumental likeness, which measures 238.2 centimeters, or 93 inches, in height and is still in its early 19th-century giltwood frame, is an important document of cultural history.
VISTA was able to do just that, snapping thousands of infrared images that were combined to generate a monumental color mosaic measuring 108,200 by 81,500 pixels.
Gustav Klimt's monumental installation, "The Beethoven Frieze," measuring more than 100 feet in length and celebrating the unification of all the arts, will be reconstructed at the Tate Liverpool museum in what is billed as Britain's first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist, Reuters reported.
Commissioned by the British art dealer Anthony d'Offay, it contained five monumental self-portraits, each measuring 9ft by 9ft (2.7m by 2.7m).
Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.
By far the star of the collection is Claude-Joseph Vernet's "Grand View of the Sea Shore Enriched With Buildings, Shipping and Figures," a monumental canvas from 1776 — it measures about 5 by 9 feet — that depicts a seascape at sunset.
"Large Flowers" (1964), one of the artist's monumental-scale flower paintings (it measures 82 by 162 inches), was estimated at $6.5 million to $8.5 million.
William Calloway, another Chicago activist, thinks the new accountability measures were "a really monumental win" for reformers.
The G-20 conference in November was a response, but it hardly measured up to the monumental meeting of 1944.
It was hauled out of the Senate parliamentary rules bin only when the measures under consideration were fairly monumental.
