Gustave Eiffel

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…

functional steel and glass architecture. This building was called “Crystal Palace” and it was 1851 ft in length. Then the article begins to chime in about the ‘Eiffel Tower”, which was created by Gustave Eiffel. This building soon became one of the most symbolism to early modernism. Even though most people believe it to be a giant mistake, the Eiffel Tower is still a miracle building for the industrial age. This gave way to skyscrapers in which enhanced the urban scene and launched the…

this book has fourteen chapters, however I will be focusing on the last two, Chapter 13 and Chapter 14. Which takes place around the time period of around 1879-1889. The characters introduced in these chapters include Mary Cassatt, John Sargent,Gustave Eiffel ,and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Chapter 13 begins with Mary Cassatt a thirty four year old who’s life was centered around her family. Until she became an impressionist painter who made her debut during the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition in…

iconic era of 19th century Modernism. With materials such as glass and cast iron emerging through the middle years of the century and steel becoming widely produced in the later years paved the way for prominent architects like Joseph Paxton and Gustave Eiffel…

democracy. To celebrate the US’s newfound freedom and success of their new representative democracy, France proposed to create a statue to give the US. In the year of 1865, sculptor Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc partnered with Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the creator of the Eiffel Tower, began to build the statue with the end goal to have it completed by 1876, by the…

speak or write whatever one pleases and the gift of following a religion freely. What other monument symbolizes freedom better than the Statue of Liberty? Dating back to 1876, the statue was sculpted by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. The copper statue consists of seven rays on her crown, each representing one of the continents; and broken chains lay at her feet; symbolizing the freedom from being ruled by a monarch. The purpose of this piece of art was to show the world…

Isabella NazarioLA-2nd2/14/18 Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty stands in the New York Harbor and has greeted a lot of immigrants into Ellis Island. At the time, Lady Liberty was letting them know that their journey to find democracy, freedom, and a better way of life, was finally over. The Statue of Liberty stands on Ellis Island as a symbol of freedom. Liberty Enlightening the World" (the full name of the statue) was a gift from France to the United States in 1886. It…

She is huge and green but also beautiful and she sailed into New York Harbor on June 17, 1885. Who is she? The Statue of Liberty and at the moment that she arrived she was dismantled and needed assistance to be put together. She was a gift of friendship from France to America. The Statue of Liberty sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces which had been packed in over 200 cases. Now at this point I would have probably wanted to know two things one of them being if she came with…

many things to do here, from the traditional French cuisine dish Escargots, or cooked land snails, to the sly smirk of the Mona Lisa in one of the world's largest museums, the Louvre, and to the romantic view of the City of Lights over the top of the Eiffel Tower in the nighttime. France is a mystical country full of life that can be experienced and explored through the eyes, ears, tongue, and feet. “The World's’ Largest Grave”, the Catacombs of Paris are sure to send a chill down your…

The French engineer, Gustave Eiffel, constructed the tower and was its namesake. He was known for pioneering steel bridge designs that were booming at the time of construction (Gustave). The tower served as the gateway arch to the Fair, and was supposed to be torn down after the Fair was over. But because of the overwhelming popularity of the tower it…