New York Statue
Feb 21st, 2010 by sophie smith
You can’t come to the best new york hotel, www.bestnewyorkcityhotel.com shop till you drop, hit Broadway, carriage ride in the park or party in the hot dance clubs without taking a day to visit the Statue of Liberty. She is was dedicated to the United States by the French people in friendship between our two countries that was established during the American Revolution. It was to commemorate the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence and was given to us in October of 1886. All of the details of the statue have a certain meaning. She is wearing a stola, sandals and a crown. She is trampling a broken chain and carrying a torch high and proud. She is also carrying a tabula ansata all of which are a Roman Style.
She sits on Liberty Island which is in the New York Harbor and she welcomes all visitors, immigrants and Americans coming home. The structure was engineered by Maurice Koechlin who was with the Gustave Eiffel’s company. Gustave Eiffel was the designer of the Eiffel Tower. It was sculpted by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. It is one of the most recognized icons of the United States and is visited by millions of people each year. There is a sister replica statue on the Ile des Cygnes in the Seine river of Paris France. She faces her sister in America many hundreds of miles across the ocean.
There are a few theories as to who was the inspiration for the face of the statue. Could it have been Bartholdi’s mother? He was very close to her and she had a sort of stern face. Could it have been the widow Isabella Eugenie Boyer. She was the wife of Isaac Singer who was the one that made the first sewing machines. She was considered to be beautiful and was left with a fortune. Could she have been called to be his model? Only Bartholdi knows.
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