However, Philo was writing more than 100 years after the Colossus had been built. Modern art historians do not ... idea may be from the account of an Italian pilgrim, Nicolas de Martoni, who ...

The statue was constructed in the image of Rhodes’s patron deity, the sun god Helios. Standing a towering 105 feet tall (according to contemporary sources), the Colossus of Rhodes was designed ...

The colossus that arrived at the Grand Egyptian ... 13th century B.C. Lost to the sands over millennia, the statue was rediscovered by Italian Egyptologist Giovanni Battista Caviglia (the ...

Recent scholarship on the statue has suggested the statue of Constantine was itself reworked from an existing colossus ... covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture of the region.

These iconic words from "The New Colossus," the 1883 poem written by American Emma Lazarus etched in bronze and mounted on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, have again been catapulted into a ...

The Colossus by Giambologna: Nearly 450 years old, it symbolizes Italy's Apennine mountains. The Great Challenge by Nicolas Lavarenne: It is a bronze sculpture in French Riviera, France.