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Jun 15, 2023 · 12. King Jagiello Monument. Nice statue near Turtle Pond. 13. Polish King Wladyslaw Jagiello Statue. I thoroughly enjoyed my visits to Central Park when I was staying in New York City. 14. Sir Walter Scott Monument. Statue of the poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott.
Central Park Statues. Since 1863, twenty-nine sculptures have been erected within New York City’s 843-acre Central Park. Most have been donated by individuals or organizations, few by the city itself. While many early statues are of authors and poets along “Literary Walk” and American figures like Daniel Webster and “the Pilgrim ...
Entrance to the chapel. The Cappella Sansevero (also known as the Cappella Sansevero de' Sangri or Pietatella) is a chapel located on Via Francesco de Sanctis 19, just northwest of the church of San Domenico Maggiore, in the historic center of Naples, Italy. The chapel is more properly named the Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà.
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Feb 1, 2013 · ABSTRACT. A celebrated marble sculpture of the body of Jesus, known as Cristo Velato (Veiled Christ), by the 18th-century Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino offers a dramatic demonstration of art as all-encompassing illusion. As such, Sanmartino's masterpiece provides a rare opportunity to deconstruct a multifaceted and richly deceptive perceptual experience into a collection of simple ...
- Thomas D. Albright
- 2013
An aristocratic mausoleum, an initiatory temple and place of memory and wonder. With its masterpieces such as the famous Veiled Christ, renowned world over for the remarkable tissue-like quality of the marble, feats of virtuosity such as Disillusion, and enigmatic creations such as the Anatomical Machines, the Sansevero Chapel is one of the most impressive monuments that the human mind has ...
Jun 23, 2016 · We buy our tickets at the ticket office, and then take shelter from the rain in an unremarkable looking building down the road – the Cappella Sansevero. The chapel doesn’t look like anything special from the outside, but when you enter, you find yourself in a world of dramatic marble statues, baroque grandeur, and alchemical symbolism.
The first Prince of Sansevero, who died in his eighties in 1604, was a brave soldier and took part in a large number of campaigns in Africa and Europe (he also fought as regimental commander in the famous battle of Lepanto in 1571). The monument and the memorial plaque were commissioned by his son, Alessandro di Sangro, Patriarch of Alexandria.
