The Statue Thread (sunrise, print, date, convert)

[BonVivant]

Great pics! Already better than I thought it will be.

Originally Posted by x2cme

Meeee tooooo!!!! hmmmm, we must all be on the same mental/creative wave length, or maybe is CD's version of the Universal Conscience!

Originally Posted by x2cme

I'm really glad you posted this thread, BonVivant! Thank you!!!

Your welcome. I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone started the thread.

Originally Posted by michmoldman

Wow! Great thread and great pictures!! Since I make cement statues, I love these pictures! Here is one of the statues I made this week of an Ascending Angel.

WOW! You are very talented Michmoldman! That is a beautiful statue indeed.

[MAK802]

These are all from the Vatican museum in Rome:

[michmoldman]

Wow!! Amazing!!! Those are some awesome statues, and great pics! Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!

[x2cme]

Cobh (pronounced "cove") is a sheltered seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Statue on the waterfront of Annie Moore and her brothers. Annie Moore was the first person to be admitted to the United States of America through the new immigration centre at Ellis Island, New York on 1 January, 1892.

You can see another image of this statue on Wikipedia. (The pix in my post one is mine, the Wikipedia is not! Yikes, just wanted to make that clear! )


(teeheehee... I have another shot of my nephew making out with her... such a goof ball! )

[maconahey]

Mother with her Dead Son by Käthe Kollwitz in Berlin, Germany

[MinuteMan]

Captain James Cook

[Oklahomasue]

[PhotogGal]

These statues are on top of a waterfall at a shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe in Des Plaines, Illinois.

[x2cme]

This is actually someone's tombstone - er, ummm, "tomb statue" in the graveyard at the Oberammergau Church in Germany. It was the most incredible statue I've ever seen over someone's grave. Wish I knew the artist so I could commission them to do one for mine (hopefully, later rather than sooner!) YIKES!

[MinuteMan]

Melbourne's Royal Arcade time keepers, Gog and Magog.







"These two 7-feet giants have been striking the time on Gaunt's clock since 1842. They were carved from clear pine and modelled on the figures erected in Guildhall, London, in 1708 to symbolise the conflict between the ancient Britons and the Trojan invaders."

"Mythology tells of the giants Gog and Magog (also known as Corineus and Gogmagog) having been captured in battle by the Trojans and made to serve as porters at the gateway of an ancient palace on a site later occupied by the Guildhall. It is traditional for Gog to stand to the north and Magog to the south."