Weekly Photo Challenge - Statues

**ses5909** · Oct 5, 2007 09:07

I've been doing some traveling lately and have seen plenty of statues. Show me some of yours.

**malikyte** · Oct 5, 2007 12:46

AWESOME! Been waiting for this one.

Now...to figure out where in the world that park is located... THANKS, SARA!

**Dan Grossman** · Oct 5, 2007 21:26

Mario the Dragon, Drexel University's mascot, at Market Street in Philadelphia.

Anthony J. Drexel himself, the founder:

Something outside the athletic center...

These are in the oldest building on campus, which was the original university when it was founded...

I don't know what this is supposed to be. A rusty piece of metal some engineers call a statue.

**Dan Schulz** · Oct 6, 2007 02:02

Does this image count?

**bdude** · Oct 6, 2007 03:16

the statue of ned kelly outside his muesum

**Dan Grossman** · Oct 6, 2007 09:28

Wow, that looks like something straight out of a cartoon

**Datura** · Oct 6, 2007 10:15

Great statues guys, fun to see all the different styles

We do not have statues around where I live, so I show a picture of a wood statue that we have. It is 7 feet tall, carved from one tree trunk, a split in his back from the drying of the wood. It is a C*ock Of The Walk -- A Boatswain -- U.S.N. 1812. I decked him out in a SitePoint T-shirt for this photo, and I removed the background to make him clearer.

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**WarpNacelle** · Oct 14, 2007 16:25

Just got back from vacation - I think it will be obvious where - and snapped these four statues!

**ses5909** · Oct 15, 2007 06:20

These are some great pictures. I love the dragon and the boatswain. Below are some of mine.

I LOVED this statue and it didn't have a plaque on it to tell me what it was. I took this in Innsbruck, Austria.

Below is a picture of Christine de Lalaing who was the wife of a governor in Tournai, belgium. She played an important role in the defense of the city during the 1581 siege by the Spanish. She was dressed up that day for a party

Below is a fountain in Salzburg, Austria that was made in the 1660s - 1680s

Here are a couple of statues on the bridges over the river Seine in Paris.

These are pictures from Savannah georgia or Confederate leaders.

**ses5909** · Oct 29, 2007 03:23

This weekend I did some sightseeing. I went to the town of Waterloo (about 30 min drive from me) and explored the old battlefield. The battle of waterloo was probably as important to European history as the Civil War is to the US history. It is the battle where Napoleon was defeated. It was only 200 years ago but it was really incredible to be out there! The place definitely had a presence.

The photo below doesn't do the statue justice. It was a huge hill (my legs still burn from climbing it) and the statue was quite large. It is a statue of a lion with his foot on the globe, "protecting peace".

**Datura** · Oct 29, 2007 06:29

That statue is impressive Sara. It is one that sticks in your memory

**Serdjio** · Nov 6, 2007 08:37

That rasty piece of metal is nice. Looks intriguing.

**ses5909** · Nov 26, 2007 09:06

I have no idea how I neglected to post this one, but belgium is famous for this little guy:

**Datura** · Nov 26, 2007 09:15

Manneken Pis as Santa -- that is just tooooo rich. I got a wonderful laugh out of that one. Thank you Sara

**Raffles** · Nov 26, 2007 10:01

This was in the Copenhagen botanical gardens. Unfortunately I don't know who they are, but I noticed there was a particular part of one of them that wasn't corroded and actually quite shiny!

**Datura** · Nov 26, 2007 10:20

Raffles, that is a custom in Europe. People rub one prominent part of a statue, mainly bronze ones, in order to have luck, fertility and such. This one has an obvious wish behind it

**Raffles** · Nov 26, 2007 10:47

I did not know that! Doesn't seem like the sort of thing these sceptical Europeans would do.

This one is in a place called Batman Hill in Melbourne, Australia. Not after the Batman from the comics, I'm afraid. The coloured cup-shaped things made each axis move in the wind, making it quite a cool effect if it was windy. Otherwise it just looked odd.

**Datura** · Nov 26, 2007 10:53

Yes, that looks like an enlarged toy

To come back to the rubbing of body parts on a statue: when I was a child, we would plan trips on the weekends to go to statues like that, it was part of a planed trip, since those statues usually stood in some kind of historic part of the country

**ses5909** · Nov 26, 2007 11:52

There is a monkey in the town I live in that you are supposed to rub his head every time you pass him for good luck. It's very old and attached to a building from the 15th century. Next time I'm downtown, I will take a picture.

**Raffles** · Nov 26, 2007 11:56

I'm surprised the monkey still has a head! All that rubbing would take its toll over 500 years.

**Datura** · Nov 26, 2007 12:43

That would be nice Sara.

Rubbing bronze does not much to take off anything but the patina. Bronze is very hard. Where I grew up there was this custom to start rubbing any new statue as well, even the abstract ones.