Sentence examples for monumental statues from inspiring English sources
Explaining how the monumental statues (moai) of Easter Island were transported has remained open to debate and speculation, including their resource expenditures and role in deforestation.
Many of these women worked on an intimate scale, but some became well known for their monumental statues of marble or bronze that grace cities throughout the world.
Logically, Saint-Gaudens's two monumental statues of Abraham Lincoln, both in Illinois, with copies in Cornish, should be his greatest works.
On the ground floor, the staff initially hoped towering layers of sandbags would protect the monumental statues, mosaics, and ornate sarcophagi that could not be moved.
This sort of gentle mockery seems a much more genuinely democratic and "anti-totalitarian" approach than pulling down monumental statues to build new ones.
Roman portrait-busts have been placed nearby, alongside the monumental statues of prophets and saints that they influenced.The most important artist exhibited here is Donatello, who started out as an assistant to Ghiberti and Brunelleschi.
Along Joseph Campau Street, a monumental statue of Pope John Paul II presides over Pope Park, with its festive mural of Krakow.
The scene in the video shifts outside, to a monumental statue of a winged bull with a man's head.
By contrast, the monumental statue of a bird about 201/2 inches, or 50 centimeters, high carved out of limestone projects a brutal force that is almost overwhelming.
As a prime example, Jaume Plensa's monumental statue Dream crowns the restoration to open access woodland of the Sutton Manor Colliery spoil heap in the north-west.
The monumental statue by Ernst Herter had been dreadfully vandalized, not just by graffiti, which reached up to the figure of the Lorelei siren, but by outright destruction.
