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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
- The copper -clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel.
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The copper -clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.
1 day ago · The Statue of Liberty was sculpted between 1875 and 1884 under the direction of French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, who began drafting designs in 1870. Bartholdi and his team hammered roughly 31 tons of copper sheets onto a steel frame.
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (/ bɑːrˈtɒldi, - ˈθɒl -/ bar-T (H)OL-dee, [1][2] French: [fʁedeʁik oɡyst baʁtɔldi]; 2 August 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. [3]
- Statue of Liberty
- Designer: Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
- Construction of The Statue of Liberty
The statue, which is a sculpture of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess, holds a torch in her right hand that is raised above her head. In her left hand, Libertas carries a tablet with the inscription "July 4, 1776" written in Roman numerals, referring to the date of the US Declaration of Independence. The height of the statue, from the ground ...
Born in Colmar, France in 1834, Bartholdi's family moved to Paris when he was two years old following the death of his father. In Paris, Bartholdi studied sculpture, architecture, drawing, and painting. The capture of Alsace by Germany during the Franco-Prussian War stirred Bartholdi's desire to support France’s founding principle of Liberty, and h...
The idea behind the Statue of Liberty is linked to to a discussion between Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye, president of the French Anti-Slavery Society, and Bartholdi in 1865, following the end of the American Civil War and the abolishment of slavery in the US. Bartholdi developed sketches of the statue and raised 400,000 Francs for the project...
Piece of art and technical achievement at the same time, “Liberty Enlightening the World”, also known as the Statue of Liberty, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste...
The Statue of Liberty is a monumental sculpture located on Liberty Island, Upper New York Bay, south of Ellis Island, in New York City. The statue, which is 305 feet tall (93 m), was designed by French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) as a gift to the United States from the people of France.
Dec 2, 2009 · The French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi created the statue itself out of sheets of hammered copper, while Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the man behind the famed Eiffel Tower, designed...
