Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: bronze

This 9,000 pound bronze lantern was purchased with contributions from Japanese school children as a symbol of friendship to the United States. Yasusuke Katsuno, the Japanese Consul General, formally presented the Peace Lantern on January 8, 1953. The gift was a commemoration of the US Japanese peace treaty signed in San Francisco in 1951 and an expression of friendship for future generations..

Gustave Doré created this three-ton bronze vase, for French winemakers, who exhibited it at the 1878 Paris World’s Fair. It represents an allegory of the annual wine vintage, taking the shape of a colossal wine vessel decorated with figures associated with the rites of Bacchus (the Roman god of wine). The revelers include cupids, satyrs, and bacchantes, who protect the grape vines from pests. The foundry shipped this bronze version of the vase to Chicago for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and then to San Francisco for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. (This exuberant work must have resonated with the fair’s theme, "California: Cornucopia of the World.") According to an article in an 1893 issue of World’s Fair, "The total visual effect of ‘Poem of the Vine’ is one of lush, rich enjoyment … like a bottle of wine itself, to be tasted in sips, yet enjoyed as a complete experience." M. H. de Young purchased the vase at the fair’s end and later donated it to the de Young Museum. In 1906 the San Francisco earthquake tipped over the vase but apparently caused little damage.

A vibrant and colourful fountain in front of the Hotel Triton on Grant Avenue in San Francisco. The water comes out of the turquoise bust.

Found on Boylston Street in Boston, by the north terrace of the Prudential Center, this large sculpture called "Quest Eternal" depicts a nude man (with exceptionally long toes) reaching for the heavens.Cast in Italy, this five-ton bronze figure is a traditional classic form. It was created by sculptor Donald De Lue in 1967.

Like the Organ, the Eagle, also came from the St. Louis World's Fair, where it was part of the German Exhibit of Arts and Crafts. All of the heavy plates that form the inner structure, as well as the feathers and other surface features, were separately wrought by hand with chisel, file and hammer. Each individual feather on the head and body was carefully modeled and fitted into place. There are 1,600 feathers on the head alone, and 5,000 on the entire Eagle. The sculpture weighs 2,500 pounds and sits on a granite base. The floor of the Grand Court had to be strengthened with girders to accommodate it. There is an old Philadelphia custom to rendezvous in Center City by saying "Meet me at the Eagle."

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The Court of Neptune Fountain is located in front of the Library of Congress Building. There are three major bronze castings, each mounted on a large rock and several smaller castings in the surrounding waters, such as turtles, frogs, serpents and dolphins. In the niches on either side of Neptune, is a nymph riding a wild sea horse. Out in the basin four turtles, two frogs, and a sea serpent spray water. On the retaining wall, just above the niches, are reliefs of dolphins and stalactites.

The Court of Neptune Fountain is located in front of the Library of Congress Building. There are three major bronze castings, each mounted on a large rock and several smaller castings in the surrounding waters, such as turtles, frogs, serpents and dolphins. In the center is Neptune, king of the sea. On each side of him are two separate castings of his two sons, the tritons, mythological gods characterized by figures with the torsos of men and the fins of fishes. The tritons blow on conch shells like trumpets.

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The statue is located in front of the Sri Aurobindo Centre at 4125 Saint-Denis Street, on the east side of the street, between Rachel and Duluth.

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