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Bartholdi and his Statue of Liberty

May 16, 2020 by Hugh Nelson 7 Comments

Diorama created by Bartoldi to show measuring and shaping of the plaster forms

The dictionary sums up what most of us know about Bartholdi and his Statue of Liberty. This brief description of a statue by a man we’ve never heard of conveys nothing of the quest and the ideas that produced this phenomenal work of art. The Statue of Liberty: a statue at the entrance to New York […]

Filed Under: History, Sight Seeing

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