This statue in the Japanese garden in Leverkusen/Cologne-Flittard “magically” attracts pennies.
(March 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Figuren, #statues, #Japanischer_Garten, #Leverkusen, #Köln_Flittard
Monday’s Monument: Cesar Chavez Statue, Austin, Texas

This student-funded statue of civil rights crusader Cesar Chavez was unveiled on the West Mall area of the University of Texas campus in 2007. The bronze statue shows Chavez facing west, with a fla…

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Statues at Queen's Park to be wrapped to protect against vandalism, house speaker says
Statues on the grounds of the Ontario Legislature will be covered in wrapping to protect them from vandalism ahead of expected protests at Queen’s Park this spring.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/queen-s-park-statues-wrapped-9.7132352?cmp=rss
Queen's Park wrapping monuments to protect against vandalism
Statues on the grounds of the Ontario Legislature will be covered in wrapping to protect them from vandalism ahead of expected protests at Queen’s Park this spring.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/queen-s-park-statues-wrapped-9.7132352?cmp=rss

A quick snapshot for #AnimalArtTuesday. No clue what the story is behind this cheerful pup, but they were outside a pet spa near the hotel we stayed at in #Cleveland.

#UrbanGaze #Statues #Sculpture #Dogs #ClassicMono #Monochrome #MicroFourThirds #EastCoastKin

🎨🏛️ Did you know the "classic" white marble look of Roman #statues was actually an accident? Ancient artists originally covered their work in bright, lifelike #colors, but centuries of weathering and overzealous scrubbing took its toll.

👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/roman-statues-werent-white-they-were-once-painted-in-vivid-bright-colors.html

#history #archaeology #ancientrome #art #science #education #museums #sculpture #discovery #learning

Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors

The idea of the classical period—the time of ancient Greece and Rome—as an elegantly unified collection of superior aesthetic and philosophical cultural traits has its own history, one that comes in large part from the era of the Neoclassical.

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The picturesque municipality of Monreal on the Elz River in the Eifel region (Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate) with the statue of St. John of Nepomuk and the Catholic parish church of the Holy Trinity.
(May 2008)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#pittoreske_Orte, #Architektur, #architecture, #Fachwerkhäuser, #half_timbered_houses, #Kirchen, #churches, #Statuen, #statues, #Monreal, #Vordereifel, #Landkreis_Mayen_Koblenz