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unusual facts about monumental sculpture



Borzęciczki

The school was named after Janusz Korczak, and in 2002 decorated with his monumental sculpture, moved from the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery cenotaph after being replaced with a bronze cast.

Pleasure garden

Containing many pavilions, a temple to Venus, and monumental sculptures, the gardens were open to the public for centuries.


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Maurice J. Power

He studied monumental sculpture under Robert Eberhard Launitz, continuing in this occupation for 20 years before setting up the National Fine Art Foundry in East Twenty Fifth Street, New York.

Strapwork

Strapwork became popular in England in the late 16th and 17th centuries as a form of plasterwork decorative moulding used particularly on ceilings, but also sculpted in stone for example around entrance doors, as at Misarden Park (1620), Gloucestershire, or on monumental sculpture, as on the frieze of the monument to Sir John Newton (d.1568), at East Harptree, Gloucestershire, and on that of Sir Gawen Carew (d.1575) in Exeter Cathedral.

Wiktor Tołkin

He was one of the influential Polish artists of monumental sculpture and the creator of the monuments to the victims from the German concentration camps in Stutthof and Majdanek.