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  • Bronze ornaments and plates on a workbench in the Atelier de Lustrerie-Bronze, or Bronze Chandelier Workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop deals mainly with gilded bronze pieces such as chandeliers, sconces, pendulums, candelabras, andirons, candlesticks and furniture bronzes from the 17th century to the present day. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze sculpture of putti playing musical instrument, possibly a candelabra base, in the Atelier de Lustrerie-Bronze, or Bronze Chandelier Workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop deals mainly with gilded bronze pieces such as chandeliers, sconces, pendulums, candelabras, andirons, candlesticks and furniture bronzes from the 17th century to the present day. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Restorer at work in the Atelier de Lustrerie-Bronze, or Bronze Chandelier Workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop deals mainly with gilded bronze pieces such as chandeliers, sconces, pendulums, candelabras, andirons, candlesticks and furniture bronzes from the 17th century to the present day. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Restorer at work in the Atelier de Lustrerie-Bronze, or Bronze Chandelier Workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop deals mainly with gilded bronze pieces such as chandeliers, sconces, pendulums, candelabras, andirons, candlesticks and furniture bronzes from the 17th century to the present day. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Restorer at work in the Atelier de Lustrerie-Bronze, or Bronze Chandelier Workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop deals mainly with gilded bronze pieces such as chandeliers, sconces, pendulums, candelabras, andirons, candlesticks and furniture bronzes from the 17th century to the present day. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Crystals on a chandelier, in the Atelier de Lustrerie-Bronze, or Bronze Chandelier Workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop deals mainly with gilded bronze pieces such as chandeliers, sconces, pendulums, candelabras, andirons, candlesticks and furniture bronzes from the 17th century to the present day. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Brushes and tools in the Atelier de Lustrerie-Bronze, or Bronze Chandelier Workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop deals mainly with gilded bronze pieces such as chandeliers, sconces, pendulums, candelabras, andirons, candlesticks and furniture bronzes from the 17th century to the present day. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Atelier de Lustrerie-Bronze, or chandelier and bronze workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop deals mainly with gilded bronze pieces such as chandeliers, sconces, pendulums, candelabras, andirons, candlesticks and furniture bronzes from the 17th century to the present day. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Atelier de Lustrerie-Bronze, or chandelier and bronze workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop deals mainly with gilded bronze pieces such as chandeliers, sconces, pendulums, candelabras, andirons, candlesticks and furniture bronzes from the 17th century to the present day. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stucco panel of the Bronze Snake, 1574-80, by Antonio Ferraro da Giuliana, his workshop and his sons Tommaso and Orazio, from the right column around the Gothic arch in the restored Baroque presbytery of the Chiesa di San Domenico, or San Domenico Church, built in 1470, commissioned by the Tagliavia family, rulers of Castelvetrano, on the Piazza Regina Margherita in Castelvetrano, Trapani, Sicily, Italy. Decorated in Baroque style in the 16th century, the church is known as the Sistine Chapel of Sicily. The church was damaged in the Belice earthquake of 1968 and was reopened in 2014 after 5 years of restoration work. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Joan Miro's bronze figure (Personage or Personatje), 1970, the Joan Miro Foundation, 1975, Josep Lluís Sert, Barcelona, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze medallion in the Hall, 4 storeys high and topped with a pinnacled dome made from glass and a self-supporting steel structure, in the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The steel structure was made by Moysant-Laurent and Savey at the Imphy steelworks. The glazed 18m wide dome was made by Jacques Galand. The bank was founded in 1864 and these buildings were transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze medallion in the Hall, 4 storeys high and topped with a pinnacled dome made from glass and a self-supporting steel structure, in the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The steel structure was made by Moysant-Laurent and Savey at the Imphy steelworks. The glazed 18m wide dome was made by Jacques Galand. The bank was founded in 1864 and these buildings were transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze medallion in the Hall, 4 storeys high and topped with a pinnacled dome made from glass and a self-supporting steel structure, in the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The steel structure was made by Moysant-Laurent and Savey at the Imphy steelworks. The glazed 18m wide dome was made by Jacques Galand. The bank was founded in 1864 and these buildings were transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze doors, with 24 hammered bas-relief scenes of the life of the Blessed Osanna of Cattaro, 1493-1565, 20th century, at St Mary's Collegiate Church, also known as St Mary of the Sea, built 1221 on the site of a 6th century basilica, on Trg od drva square in the old town of Kotor, on the Bay of Kotor on the Adriatic coast of Montenegro. St Osanna was an anchoress who asked to be walled into a cell beside the church to devote her life to prayer. The Bay of Kotor area is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze doors, detail, with 24 hammered bas-relief scenes of the life of the Blessed Osanna of Cattaro, 1493-1565, 20th century, at St Mary's Collegiate Church, also known as St Mary of the Sea, built 1221 on the site of a 6th century basilica, on Trg od drva square in the old town of Kotor, on the Bay of Kotor on the Adriatic coast of Montenegro. St Osanna was an anchoress who asked to be walled into a cell beside the church to devote her life to prayer. The Bay of Kotor area is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Miracle of the Bronze Serpent, by Jacopo Tintoretto, 1518-94, painting on the ceiling of the Sala Superiore, in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, a lay confraternity founded in 1478, based on the cult of St Roch, in San Polo in Venice, Italy. The Scuola was built 1515-60 by several architects: Bartolomeo Bon, Pietro Bon, Sante Lombardo, Antonio Scarpagnino and Giangiacomo dei Grigi. In 1564-87 Jacopo Tintoretto was commissioned to decorate the rooms with paintings of the Old and New Testaments. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze medallion in the Hall, 4 storeys high and topped with a pinnacled dome made from glass and a self-supporting steel structure, in the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The steel structure was made by Moysant-Laurent and Savey at the Imphy steelworks. The glazed 18m wide dome was made by Jacques Galand. The bank was founded in 1864 and these buildings were transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze medallion in the Hall, 4 storeys high and topped with a pinnacled dome made from glass and a self-supporting steel structure, in the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The steel structure was made by Moysant-Laurent and Savey at the Imphy steelworks. The glazed 18m wide dome was made by Jacques Galand. The bank was founded in 1864 and these buildings were transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC18_SOCIETEGENERALE_MC_039.jpg
  • Bronze medallion in the Hall, 4 storeys high and topped with a pinnacled dome made from glass and a self-supporting steel structure, in the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The steel structure was made by Moysant-Laurent and Savey at the Imphy steelworks. The glazed 18m wide dome was made by Jacques Galand. The bank was founded in 1864 and these buildings were transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC18_SOCIETEGENERALE_MC_038.jpg
  • Bronze medallion in the Hall, 4 storeys high and topped with a pinnacled dome made from glass and a self-supporting steel structure, in the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The steel structure was made by Moysant-Laurent and Savey at the Imphy steelworks. The glazed 18m wide dome was made by Jacques Galand. The bank was founded in 1864 and these buildings were transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC18_SOCIETEGENERALE_MC_036.jpg
  • Bronze medallion in the Hall, 4 storeys high and topped with a pinnacled dome made from glass and a self-supporting steel structure, in the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The steel structure was made by Moysant-Laurent and Savey at the Imphy steelworks. The glazed 18m wide dome was made by Jacques Galand. The bank was founded in 1864 and these buildings were transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC18_SOCIETEGENERALE_MC_035.jpg
  • Bronze medallion in the Hall, 4 storeys high and topped with a pinnacled dome made from glass and a self-supporting steel structure, in the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The steel structure was made by Moysant-Laurent and Savey at the Imphy steelworks. The glazed 18m wide dome was made by Jacques Galand. The bank was founded in 1864 and these buildings were transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC18_SOCIETEGENERALE_MC_028.jpg
  • Bronze medallion in the Hall, 4 storeys high and topped with a pinnacled dome made from glass and a self-supporting steel structure, in the registered head office of Societe Generale, at 29 Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The steel structure was made by Moysant-Laurent and Savey at the Imphy steelworks. The glazed 18m wide dome was made by Jacques Galand. The bank was founded in 1864 and these buildings were transformed 1906-12 by Jacques Hermant, and in use from 1915. Societe Generale remains one of the largest banks in the world, although its headquarters are now at La Defense. The Haussmann building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Indian chief, detail of bronze bust, 1885, by Theodore Baur, 1835- after 1902, from the collection of the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA. The chief wears a feather headdress and braids in his hair. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Indian chief, bronze bust, 1885, by Theodore Baur, 1835- after 1902, from the collection of the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA. The chief wears a feather headdress and braids in his hair. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Cheyenne, bronze sculpture, 1901-3, of a Cheyenne Indian charging on his stallion, holding a spear, by Frederic Remington, 1861-1909, from the collection of the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chief of the Multnomah Tribe, bronze sculpture, 1905, by Hermon Atkins MacNeil, 1866-1947, from the collection of the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA. The chief wears a feather headdress and has shield, bow and arrows on his back. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Roman bronze military standard of a cavalry troop, in the form of a walking horse, Severan Vindolanda period 200-212 AD, in the Vindolanda Museum, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, England. Mounted on a tall pole, the flag would have been attached to the bars at the foot of the stand. Hadrian's Wall was built 73 miles across Britannia, now England, 122-128 AD, under the reign of Emperor Hadrian, ruled 117-138, to mark the Northern extent of the Roman Empire and guard against barbarian attacks from the Picts to the North. The Vindolanda Museum is run by the Vindolanda Charitable Trust and forms part of the Hadrian's Wall UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Joan Miro's bronze figure (Personage or Personatje), 1970, the Joan Miro Foundation, 1975, Josep Lluís Sert, Barcelona, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen - Further clearance required - Autorisation nécessaire
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  • Virgin and Child, mosaics at the top of the Bronze Door, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pontifical Swiss Guard at the Bronze Door, 1949, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy. This main entrance to the Apostolic Palace and the papal apartments leads to the marble Scala Regia (Royal Staircase). Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze winged Victory, on high socle at the end of Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II (Vittorio Emanuele II bridge), Ennio de Rossi, Rome, Italy. Though De Rossis design was made in 1886 the bridge was not inaugurated until the year 1911. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze winged Victory, on high socle at the end of Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II (Vittorio Emanuele II bridge), Ennio de Rossi, Rome, Italy. Though De Rossis design was made in 1886 the bridge was not inaugurated until the year 1911. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze relief of the presentation of the church to the king, from one of the two doors of the central gate of the Main Portal or hlavni portal of St Vitus Cathedral, which is decorated with scenes of the building of the cathedral from 925-1929, St Vitus cathedral, a Gothic Roman catholic cathedral founded 1344, within Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic. The relief work was completed by O Spaniel according to the plans of V H Brunner. The cathedral's full name is the St Vitus, St Wenceslas and St Adalbert cathedral and is the largest church in the Czech Republic. The historic centre of Prague was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Low angle view of equestrian bronze statue of Charlemagne, "Charlemagne et ses Leudes", by the brothers Charles and Louis Rochet, installed in 1882, Place du Parvis-Notre-Dame, Paris France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • God of Coligny, possibly the god Mars, representing life overcoming death, bronze statue, originally part of a bronze Gallic calendar found in fragments, late 1st century AD, in Lugdunum Museum, an archaeology museum housing Celtic, Roman and pre-Roman artefacts, designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened 1975, on the Roman site of Lugdunum in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus on an existing Gallic site, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • God of Coligny, possibly the god Mars, representing life overcoming death, bronze statue, originally part of a bronze Gallic calendar found in fragments, late 1st century AD, in Lugdunum Museum, an archaeology museum housing Celtic, Roman and pre-Roman artefacts, designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened 1975, on the Roman site of Lugdunum in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus on an existing Gallic site, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Felipe the Mexican, Ali the Tunisian and Rania the Arab (left-right), Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • God of Coligny, possibly the god Mars, representing life overcoming death, bronze statue, originally part of a bronze Gallic calendar found in fragments, late 1st century AD, in Lugdunum Museum, an archaeology museum housing Celtic, Roman and pre-Roman artefacts, designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened 1975, on the Roman site of Lugdunum in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus on an existing Gallic site, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • God of Coligny, possibly the god Mars, representing life overcoming death, bronze statue, originally part of a bronze Gallic calendar found in fragments, late 1st century AD, in Lugdunum Museum, an archaeology museum housing Celtic, Roman and pre-Roman artefacts, designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened 1975, on the Roman site of Lugdunum in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus on an existing Gallic site, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • God of Coligny, possibly the god Mars, representing life overcoming death, bronze statue, originally part of a bronze Gallic calendar found in fragments, late 1st century AD, in Lugdunum Museum, an archaeology museum housing Celtic, Roman and pre-Roman artefacts, designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened 1975, on the Roman site of Lugdunum in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus on an existing Gallic site, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • God of Coligny, possibly the god Mars, representing life overcoming death, bronze statue, originally part of a bronze Gallic calendar found in fragments, late 1st century AD, in Lugdunum Museum, an archaeology museum housing Celtic, Roman and pre-Roman artefacts, designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened 1975, on the Roman site of Lugdunum in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus on an existing Gallic site, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • God of Coligny, possibly the god Mars, representing life overcoming death, bronze statue, originally part of a bronze Gallic calendar found in fragments, late 1st century AD, in Lugdunum Museum, an archaeology museum housing Celtic, Roman and pre-Roman artefacts, designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened 1975, on the Roman site of Lugdunum in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus on an existing Gallic site, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mercury, god of trade, Gallo-Roman bronze statuette, bronze, 1st - 3rd century AD, excavated at the thermal baths at Coulounieix-Chamiers, in the Musee Vesunna, Perigueux, Dordogne, France. The Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum was built by Jean Nouvel and opened in 2003, to protect and house the excavated remains of the Vesunna domus and exhibit artefacts from the region. Vesunna was founded on the site of modern-day Perigueux in c. 16 BC under Emperor Augustus, and was the Gallo-Roman capital of Petrucores territory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Presa de Castillejos, or Conquest of Los Castillejos in the Hispano-Moroccan War, bronze relief on the plinth of the Monument to General Prim, detail, in the Parc de La Ciutadella, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Joan Prim i Prats, 1814-70, was a Spanish soldier, politician and Prime Minister, and is depicted in a bronze equestrian statue on a plinth surrounded by reliefs of his military campaigns. The original sculpture was by Lluis Puiggener and was inaugurated in 1889, but it was destroyed to make ammunitions during the Spanish Civil War and remade by Frederic Mares after the war. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jim the New Yorker, Jeanne the Russian doll, Enzo the Italian and Felipe the Mexican (left-right), Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ayako the Japanese, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mahatma the Indian, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Maria Carmen the Spaniard, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Antonio the Brazilian, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rania the Arab, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ali the Tunisian, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Enzo the Italian, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jim the New Yorker, one of Les enfants du Monde, or Children of the World, 2001, by Rachid Khimoune, 21 bronze sculptures representing different countries made using imprints from streets (paving stones, bronze grids, manholes, etc), symbolising the need to respect the rights of children at the dawn of the 21st century, in the Parc de Bercy, a public park along the banks of the Seine in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park was commissioned in 1993 by President Francois Mitterand and is comprised of 3 gardens designed by Bernard Huet, Madeleine Ferrand, Jean-Pierre Feugas, Bernard Leroy, and by landscapers Ian Le Caisne and Philippe Raguin. The gardens are the Romantic Garden, with fishponds and dunes, the Flowerbeds and the Meadows, open lawns shaded by tall trees. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Eugene Delacroix Fountain, bronze, 1890, by Jules Dalou (1838-1902), Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France. The monument topped by a bust of French Romantic painter Delacroix (1798-1863), also consists of a 6 jet fountain with allegorical bronze figures representing Time, Glory and the Arts. Photograph by Manuel Cohen.
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  • King John, bronze equestrian statue, 1889, Johannes Schilling, Theaterplatz Square, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Lovers, sitting on the steps of the pedestal, give the scale of the large equestrian statue of king Johann (John), who ruled Saxony from 1854 until 1873. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Red polished plank shaped figurine in terracotta, early Bronze Age III, 2100-2000 BC, from Bellapais-Vounous, Cyprus, from the Department of Antiquities, Nicosia, Cyprus, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Red polished 2 necked plank shaped figurine in terracotta, middle Bronze Age I, 2000-1850 BC, from Deneia, Cyprus, from the Department of Antiquities, Nicosia, Cyprus, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC19_ITALY_MC_037.jpg
  • Bust of Pierre Dugua de Mons, 1560-1628, coloniser of New France, Canada, under Samuel de Champlain, erected 2007, created by Atelier du Bronze d'Inverness, a copy of a bust by Hamilton McCarthy erected in Annapolis, Nova Scotia, c. 1904, on Pierre-Dugua-de Mons Terrace, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The Historic District of Old Quebec is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tigre terrasant un crocodile, 1869, bronze patina sculpture by Auguste Nicholas Cain, displayed at the jardin des Tuileries since 1874, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Venus, bronze, 1928, by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), at the Tuileries Gardens since 1965, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Venus, bronze, 1928, by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), at the Tuileries Gardens since 1965, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Baigneuse se coiffant (Bather fixing her hair), bronze, 1930, by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), at the Tuileries Gardens since 1965, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Venus, bronze, 1928, by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), at the Tuileries Gardens since 1965, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Baigneuse se coiffant (Bather fixing her hair), bronze, 1930, by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), at the Tuileries Gardens since 1965, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La Defense, bronze, 1883, by Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905), Monument to the defenders of Paris in 1870, La Defense, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La Defense, bronze, 1883, by Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905), Monument to the defenders of Paris in 1870, La Defense, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • José de San Martin, 1862, Louis-Joseph Daumas, Parc Montsouris, Paris, France. This equestrian statue is a bronze replica ordered in 1960 of the original one erected on the Monument to José San Martin in Buenos Aires. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Le Baiser (The Kiss), bronze, 1881-1898, by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Gardens), 1664, Le Nôtre, Paris, France. Egyptian obelisk of Place de la Concorde visible in the distance. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Joan Miro's Young girl escaping (Jeune fille s'evadant, Noia evadint-se) painted bronze, 1967, the Joan Miro Foundation (terrace), 1975, Josep Lluís Sert, Barcelona, Spain Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Joan Miro's Woman and bird (Femme et oiseau, Dona i ocell), painted bronze, 1967, the Joan Miro Foundation, 1975, Josep Lluís Sert, Barcelona, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Disk idol in gypsum alabaster, Kultepe type, early Bronze Age III, 2300-2000 BC, from Cappadocia, Anatolia, from the Ligabue collection, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bronze equestrian statue of King Henri IV of France, at the end of the Pont Neuf, Paris, France. The statue was erected on the death of the King in 1610, although the original was melted down during the French Revolution and replaced with this copy in 1818. In the background is the La Samaritaine department store, first opened 1869, built by Frantz Jourdain and Henri Sauvage, on the Quai du Louvre. It was constructed and reworked 1883-1933 in Art Nouveau and Art Deco style, and its glass roof and Art Deco facade were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Propery in 1990, as part of the Banks of the Seine. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La Mediterranee or The Mediterranean, bronze sculpture by Aristide Maillol, 1861-1944, in the courtyard of Perpignan Town Hall, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. The original version of this sculpture, entitled 'Woman', was in limestone and dates to 1905, although it was later altered and recast in bronze. It has an alternative title, 'Thought'. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rik de Hop la Houppe, 2006, by Martial Raysse (1936, Golfe-Juan), aluminium bronze statue, lobby of the MK2 Bibliotheque cinema, Paris 13th arrondissement, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Centauro, by Igor Mitoraj, bronze, 1994, in Canary Wharf, West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs, Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Testa Addormentata, by Igor Mitoraj, bronze, 1993, in Canary Wharf, West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs, Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London, UK.
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  • Colonna dell'Immacolata (Column of the Immaculate), 1724 designed by Tommaso Maria Napoli and built by Giovanni Amico, Piazza San Domenico, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The marble column stands on a marble pedestal and is topped by a bronze statue of the Immaculate. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Colonna dell'Immacolata (Column of the Immaculate), 1724 designed by Tommaso Maria Napoli and built by Giovanni Amico, Piazza San Domenico, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The marble column stands on a marble pedestal and is topped by a bronze statue of the Immaculate. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Roger of Lauria (Roger de Lluria - 1245 - 1305) Sicilian-Aragonese admiral, commander of the fleet of Aragon during the War of the Sicilian Vespers, bronze statue, 1884, by Josep Reynes i Gurgui, Passeig de Lluis Companys with Passeig de Pujades, Barcelona, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Roger of Lauria (Roger de Lluria - 1245 - 1305) Sicilian-Aragonese admiral, commander of the fleet of Aragon during the War of the Sicilian Vespers, bronze statue, 1884, by Josep Reynes i Gurgui, Passeig de Lluis Companys with Passeig de Pujades, Barcelona, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sherlock Holmes, "The Great Detective", bronze statue, 1999, John Doubleday, commissioned by Sherlock Holmes Society of London, Baker Street, silhouetted against an opaque morning light, London, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • John Betjeman, larger-than-lifesize bronze statue, 2007, Martin Jennings, St Pancras International, railways' terminus celebrated for its Victorian architecture, London, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • John Betjeman (detail), larger-than-lifesize bronze statue, 2007, Martin Jennings, St Pancras International, with "The Meeting Place", by Paul Day, 2007, and the famous St. Pancras Clock in the background, London, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Lovers touching foreheads as they clasp, monumental bronze sculpture titled "The Meeting Place" (detail), by Paul Day, 2007, Eurostar's London terminal, St Pancras, London, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La Douleur (Grief), 1922, bronze, by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), Jardin du Carrousel, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pomone (detail), 1910, bronze, by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), Jardin du Carrousel, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Standing Woman, bronze, 1932, by Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935), Tuileries Gardens, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La France apportant la paix et la prosperite aux colonies, gilded bronze statue, by Leon Ernest Drivier (1878-1951), Fontaine de la Porte Doree, Paris, France. The ten-meter statue represents the warrior Athena with a spear, overlooking a pond at several levels and was placed there for its proximity to the Museum of Colonial opened in 1931 for the International Colonial Exhibition. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La France apportant la paix et la prosperite aux colonies, gilded bronze statue, by Leon Ernest Drivier (1878-1951), Fontaine de la Porte Doree, Paris, France. The ten-meter statue represents the warrior Athena with a spear, overlooking a pond at several levels and was placed there for its proximity to the Museum of Colonial opened in 1931 for the International Colonial Exhibition. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC12_Paris_MC130.jpg
  • La France apportant la paix et la prosperite aux colonies, gilded bronze statue, by Leon Ernest Drivier (1878-1951), Fontaine de la Porte Doree, Paris, France. The ten-meter statue represents the warrior Athena with a spear, overlooking a pond at several levels and was placed there for its proximity to the Museum of Colonial opened in 1931 for the International Colonial Exhibition. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jeanne d'Arc, gilded bronze equestrian statue, 1874, by Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910), place des Pyramides, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jeanne d'Arc, gilded bronze equestrian statue, 1874, by Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910), place des Pyramides, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Méditation avec bras (Meditation With Arms), bronze, 1905, by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Gardens), 1664, Le Nôtre, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reclining Figure (Figure couchée), bronze, 1951, by Henry Moore (1898-1986), Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Gardens), 1664, Le Nôtre, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La Foule (Crowd), bronze, 1963, by Raymond Mason (1922-2010), Tuileries Gardens (Jardin des Tuileries), 1664, Le Notre, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • La Foule (Crowd), bronze, 1963, by Raymond Mason (1922-2010), Tuileries Gardens (Jardin des Tuileries), 1664, Le Notre, Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Gilded bronze sculpture 'Il pensiero' (The Thought), 1911 by Giulio Monteverde, outside Victor Emmanuel II Monument, Rome, Italy, dome of the Church of the Gesu (Chiesa del Gesu), 16th century, visible in the background. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Gilded bronze sculpture 'Il pensiero' (The Thought), 1911 by Giulio Monteverde, outside Victor Emmanuel II Monument, Rome, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LCITALY12_MC133.jpg
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