The Gateway Arch is a 192-meter (630-foot) monument in St. Louis in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the world’s tallest arch and the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere. It is also the tallest stainless steel monument in the world. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States, … Read more
The Arch of Constantine is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated right next to the Colosseum. It was erected in 315 AD by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine I’s victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 AD. Faced with a much smaller army than Maxentius, Constantine carried the Christian symbol … Read more
Mount Rushmore, also known as the President’s Mountain, is located in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota, United States. Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 18-meter (60-foot) sculptures of the heads of … Read more
The Thinker (Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin. The work shows a nude male figure of over life-size sitting on a rock with his chin resting on one hand as though deep in thought and is often used as an image to represent philosophy. The figure is about 186 centimeters (73 inches) … Read more
The British Museum is dedicated to human history, art and culture, and is located in the Bloomsbury area of London. The Museum houses a vast collection of world art and artefacts and is free to all visitors. The British Museum collection today contains over 8 million objects. Only 1%, or 80,000 of these objects are … Read more
Lascaux (Lascaux Caves) is the setting of a complex of caves in the Dordogne region of southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. Lascaux’s cave paintings are famous because of their exceptional quality, size, sophistication and antiquity. Estimated to be more than 17,000 years old, the paintings consist primarily of large animals, once native … Read more
The Great Sphinx of Giza commonly referred to as the Sphinx of Giza or just the Sphinx, is an immense stone sculpture of a creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human. It is the largest and most famous Sphinx, situated at the Giza Plateau adjacent to the Great Pyramids … Read more
The Moai statues are also known as ‘moai’, ‘Easter Island heads’ and ‘Easter Island statues’, are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people between the years 1250 and 1500 CE. The Moai statues are located on Easter Island, or ‘Rapa Nui’ as the indigenous call it, a Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean. … Read more
The Louvre or the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, is the most visited and famous museum in the world. The Louvre Palace is a former royal palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris. Originally a fortress built in the medieval period, it became a royal palace in the 14th century under … Read more