Trump, Bannon and the Coming Crisis

[Marypoza]

(02-09-2017, 11:23 AM)SomeGuy Wrote:

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.

-- yeah, but there were specs for it, which David posted. Somebody modeled for them. When the Egyptian deal fell thru, Bartholdi shopped the specs to a dude named Laboulaye, who wanted a monument for the United States. Lady Liberty was born:

http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/statue-history

Jamie Kaler did a show on this, btw...

http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/608846