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Bartholdi, Flora, Photography, Poetry, ralph waldo emerson, roman goddess, sculpture, U.S. Botanic Garden, Veterans, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington D.C.
I love Washington D.C. for many reasons, but politicians aren’t one of them. The city is rich in history and has many beautiful sculptures. I love researching sculptures to understand their meaning and history. The sculptures themselves are beautiful, but I love focusing on the small details.
Ralph Waldo Emerson had this to say:
Painting and Sculpture
The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm,
Because she still is naked, being drest;
The godlike sculptor will not so deform
Beauty, which bones and flesh enough invest.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Please, enjoy some of my recent photographs:
The Bartholdi Fountain is the work of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the same sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, is a smiling, young figure with roses in her hair and in her necklace. (U.S. Botanic Garden -- click here for more information)
The Bartholdi Fountain in Bartholdi Park.
Base of James Garfield Monument (See Garfield Monument for more information.)
Base of James Garfield Monument (See Garfield Monument for more information.)
"Charity" -- Vietnam Women's Memorial - depicts three uniformed women with a wounded soldier. The woman looking up is named Hope, the woman praying is named Faith, and the woman tending to a wounded soldier is named Charity.
Thinker on a Rock by Barry Flanagan
Fountain head on John Paul Jones memorial.
