Bartholdi's Statue Of Liberty

In 1886, a statue arose in the harbor of New York City, a statue taller than any skyscraper in the city at the time. The statue’s official name was Liberty Enlightening the World, later known as the Statue of Liberty. (Karwatka) The statue was a gift from the people of France to United States, to commemorate the friendship between the two nations. This magnificent work by by Fré- déric Auguste Bartholdi is design to be a neoclassical art style statue representing liberty of people.
The origin of the statue dates back to France in 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to an end, the French politician and historian Édouard René Lefèvre de Laboulaye and other politicians were resisting a movement to return France to a monarchy system. (Hansen)

The United State Congress and Bartholdi also came to an agreement that the United States would procure public

The Roman goddess, Libertas, the embodiment of liberty, influenced Bartholdi’s design; the statue is also similar to Thomas Crawford’s “Statue of Freedom”. (Bodnar, Burt, Stinson, Truesdell,) Bartholdi’s design is consisted of a woman wearing a flowing robe and a spiked crown, who holds a torch aloft in her right hand and a book on her left with the inscription of “July 4th, 1776”, which was the date that United States gained its independence from Britain. On the foot of the statue, it lies a broken shackle on her right foot as she stride forward indicating the nation has broken the control of tyranny. The statue’s profile, hairstyle, and the roman garment all indicates the influence of the neoclassical art style. ( Khan 94) The construction of this ideal liberty figure was engineered by the French civil engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel whom used an artistic style known as repoussage to form the figure with copper sheets hammered to the molds-created by wooden forms places on the plaster. (Hansen) Meanwhile in the United States, Richard Morris Hunt and Charles P. Stone designed and engineered the foundation and pedestal. The architect for Liberty's pedestal, Richard Morris Hunt, designed an 89-foot-high pedestal that would sit upon a concrete foundation that is resting within the 11-pointed star-shaped walls. (Hansen) General Charles P. Stone was the chief engineer in charge of the entire