Scott Mcculloch Statue Of Liberty
Scott McCulloch
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
The Statue of Liberty is a neoclassical monument that stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbour. It was given as a gift from France in 1886 and has become a world famous icon. The statue is of great political significance, symbolising the ideals of the age it was constructed and reflecting the principles of the American Declaration of Independence, a constitution that modern America still has as its political compass. It is also architecturally significant because its design successfully embodied the liberal tenets of the age and has managed to retain its iconic status in the modern world.
The gift of the Statue of Liberty was the culmination of over 100 years of favourable relations and shared political ideals between the USA and France, and this relationship began before the nation of America was created. As a reaction to authoritarian British rule, 13 colonies in North America fought a revolutionary war and claimed independence in 1776. This victory was made possible by a treaty they signed with France. French troops and finance helped defeat the British and the United States of America was born (Cowie 1993). This new country created a …show more content…
Present at Laboulayes party was French sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who was offered the job of designing the tribute. In 1871 he went to America and spent a year travelling the country. He arrived in New York and was immediately fascinated by the location of a small island at the entrance to the harbour. Bartholdi felt this would be an ideal position for his sculpture as it would be one of the first sights travellers and immigrants would see when they arrived (Roberts 2002). Clearly, a statue of great stature, whose symbolism could be easily read, needed to be the two main objectives of Bartholdi’s
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
The Statue of Liberty is a neoclassical monument that stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbour. It was given as a gift from France in 1886 and has become a world famous icon. The statue is of great political significance, symbolising the ideals of the age it was constructed and reflecting the principles of the American Declaration of Independence, a constitution that modern America still has as its political compass. It is also architecturally significant because its design successfully embodied the liberal tenets of the age and has managed to retain its iconic status in the modern world.
The gift of the Statue of Liberty was the culmination of over 100 years of favourable relations and shared political ideals between the USA and France, and this relationship began before the nation of America was created. As a reaction to authoritarian British rule, 13 colonies in North America fought a revolutionary war and claimed independence in 1776. This victory was made possible by a treaty they signed with France. French troops and finance helped defeat the British and the United States of America was born (Cowie 1993). This new country created a …show more content…
Present at Laboulayes party was French sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who was offered the job of designing the tribute. In 1871 he went to America and spent a year travelling the country. He arrived in New York and was immediately fascinated by the location of a small island at the entrance to the harbour. Bartholdi felt this would be an ideal position for his sculpture as it would be one of the first sights travellers and immigrants would see when they arrived (Roberts 2002). Clearly, a statue of great stature, whose symbolism could be easily read, needed to be the two main objectives of Bartholdi’s