Quote:Originally, she was supposed to be Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia
I understand that the model for the figure was an Egyptian woman. Bartholdi changed her to Greek Goddess for the Statue of Liberty, but the face remained the same. There's real irony in that.
Sorry, not true. Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia never got past the proposal stage, there was no "Egyptian model". The Statue of Liberty was built for America in France by Bartholdi and Viollet-le-Duc.