The Statue of liberty is built on Liberty Island, in New York City was completed on October 28th1886. The Statue of liberty used to be called the Liberty Enlightening the world. The meaning behind this statue is freedom. This meaning is, because Immigrates traveled to the statue of liberty to become free and have a better life. The sculptor was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, along with the architects Gustave Eiffel, Maurice Koechlin and Richard Morris Hunt and Eugene Viollet-Le-Duc. It took eleven years for the status of liberty to be made and open up. Gustave Eiffel done the inner framework of the statue of liberty, later to also use that same design for the Eiffel Tower. The seven Spikes on her crown represent the seven seas. The seven seas are
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Her torch is the most important symbol on her. There are twenty-five windows within her crown that visitors used to be about to get a view out of, however since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 the crown and the torch have been closed to the public. Lady liberty has a tablet in her left hand which reads July 4th, 1776 in roman numerals. The date on the tablet stands for independence. At the statues feet are broken chains that represent breaking free from servitude. Servitude is otherwise known as the state of being a slave. The statue of liberty is a “in the round” sculpture, because the statue is free standing which means that the statue is only attacked to something by the base. The statue was made by assemblage. Assemblage in art is a medium that consists of three dimensional element. Scaffolding was a tool used to assemblage the statue. The media used on the statue of liberty was copper, gold, wrought iron, and stainless steel. The statue originally color was a dull brown, however over 30 years the statue became a greenish color from the weather. This is called a patina which means any sign of ageing, such as darkening or
Her torch is the most important symbol on her. There are twenty-five windows within her crown that visitors used to be about to get a view out of, however since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 the crown and the torch have been closed to the public. Lady liberty has a tablet in her left hand which reads July 4th, 1776 in roman numerals. The date on the tablet stands for independence. At the statues feet are broken chains that represent breaking free from servitude. Servitude is otherwise known as the state of being a slave. The statue of liberty is a “in the round” sculpture, because the statue is free standing which means that the statue is only attacked to something by the base. The statue was made by assemblage. Assemblage in art is a medium that consists of three dimensional element. Scaffolding was a tool used to assemblage the statue. The media used on the statue of liberty was copper, gold, wrought iron, and stainless steel. The statue originally color was a dull brown, however over 30 years the statue became a greenish color from the weather. This is called a patina which means any sign of ageing, such as darkening or