Guiding Light
by Joann Vitali
Title
Guiding Light
Artist
Joann Vitali
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A silhouette view of the Statue of Liberty at sunset with sun positioned at torch.
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberty's clairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frederick Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.
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April 2nd, 2012
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