Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
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Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
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