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Hiram Powers

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Hiram Powers (July 29, 1805 – June 27, 1873) was an American neoclassical sculptor. [1]

62 relations: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Andrew Jackson, Berkshire Museum, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Birmingham Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Clock, Clockmaker, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dante Alighieri, Detroit Institute of Arts, Divine Comedy, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Cemetery, Florence, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Florence, Frances Milton Trollope, Glencairn Museum, Greenville County Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, High Museum of Art, Hollis Taggart Galleries, Honolulu Museum of Art, Horatio Greenough, Hudson River Museum, Inferno (Dante), Luman Watson, McClain High School (Greenfield, Ohio), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miami University, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, National Gallery of Art, Neoclassicism, Newark Museum, Nicholas Longworth (winemaker), North Carolina Museum of Art, Ohio, Organ (music), Portland Museum of Art, Preston Powers, Sculpture, ..., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Taft Museum of Art, Thayaht, The Great Exhibition, The Greek Slave, The Last of the Tribes, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Vermont State House, Washington, D.C., White House, Woodstock, Vermont, Yale University Art Gallery. Expand index (12 more) »

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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Amon Carter Museum of American Art

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA) is located in Fort Worth, Texas, in the city's cultural district.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Berkshire Museum

The Berkshire Museum is a museum of art, natural history and ancient civilization that is located in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bertel Thorvaldsen (19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danish sculptor of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy.

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Birmingham Museum of Art

Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama, today has one of the finest collections in the Southeastern United States, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American.

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Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Carnegie Museum of Art

The Carnegie Museum of Art, located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an art museum founded in 1895 by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie.

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Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art houses the most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany found anywhere, a major collection of American art pottery, and fine collections of late-19th- and early-20th-century American paintings, graphics and the decorative arts.

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Chrysler Museum of Art

The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum on the border between downtown and the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia.

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Cincinnati

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Cincinnati Art Museum

The Cincinnati Art Museum is one of the oldest art museums in the United States.

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Clock

A clock is an instrument to measure, keep, and indicate time.

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Clockmaker

A clockmaker is an artisan who makes and/or repairs clocks.

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Corcoran Gallery of Art

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was an art museum in Washington, D.C. Prior to its closing, it was one of the oldest privately supported cultural institutions in the United States capital.

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Dallas Museum of Art

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St.

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Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.

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Detroit Institute of Arts

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States.

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Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett,; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

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English Cemetery, Florence

The English Cemetery in Florence, Italy is at Piazzale Donatello.

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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums in California, United States.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Frances Milton Trollope

Frances Milton Trollope (10 March 1779 – 6 October 1863) was an English novelist and writer who published as Mrs.

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Glencairn Museum

Glencairn (1928-39) is a castle-like mansion in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, that was home to the Pitcairn family for more than 40 years.

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Greenville County Museum of Art

The Greenville County Museum of Art (GCMA) is an art museum located in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Harvard Art Museums

The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985) and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (founded in 1958), the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art (founded in 2002), the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies (founded in 1928).

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High Museum of Art

The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High), located in Atlanta, is a leading art museum in the Southeastern United States.

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Hollis Taggart Galleries

Hollis Taggart Galleries was founded in 1979 with a mission of presenting museum-quality works of art, maintaining an inventory and exhibition program motivated by scholarship, and offering personalized advising for collectors.

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Honolulu Museum of Art

The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaiokinai.

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Horatio Greenough

Horatio Greenough (September 6, 1805 – December 18, 1852) was an American sculptor best known for his United States government commissions The Rescue (1837–50) and George Washington (1840).

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Hudson River Museum

The Hudson River Museum, located in Trevor Park in Yonkers, New York, is the largest museum in Westchester County.

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Inferno (Dante)

Inferno (Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy.

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Luman Watson

Luman Watson was an early Cincinnati clockmaker.

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McClain High School (Greenfield, Ohio)

Edward Lee McClain High School is a public high school for people in Greenfield, Ohio, United States.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Miami University

Miami University (also referred to as Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university on a 2,138-acre campus in Oxford, Ohio, 35 miles north of Cincinnati.

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Milwaukee Art Museum

The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is the fifth largest museum in the United States.

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), located in the Houston Museum District, Houston, is one of the largest museums in the United States.

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National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Newark Museum

The Newark Museum, in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, is the state's largest museum.

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Nicholas Longworth (winemaker)

Nicholas Longworth (January 16, 1783 – February 10, 1863) was an American banker and winemaker as well as the founder of the Longworth family in Ohio.

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North Carolina Museum of Art

The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Organ (music)

In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.

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Portland Museum of Art

The Portland Museum of Art, or PMA, is the largest and oldest public art institution in the U.S. state of Maine.

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Preston Powers

Preston Powers (1843 – 1931) American sculptor, painter, and teacher, born in Florence, Italy.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Taft Museum of Art

The Taft Museum of Art is a historic house museum holding a fine art collection in Cincinnati.

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Thayaht

Thayaht was the pseudonym of artist and designer Ernesto Michahelles (1893–1959) best known for his revolutionary design of the TuTa and his involvement with the Italian Futurist movement.

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The Great Exhibition

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations or The Great Exhibition, sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held, was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.

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The Greek Slave

The Greek Slave is a marble sculpture by American sculptor Hiram Powers.

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The Last of the Tribes

The Last of the Tribes is a neo-classical sculpture by Hiram Powers (1805–1873).

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University of Michigan Museum of Art

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, or UMMA in Ann Arbor, Michigan with is one of the largest university art museums in the USA.

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Vermont State House

The Vermont State House, located in Montpelier, is the state capitol of the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.

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Woodstock, Vermont

Woodstock is the shire town (county seat) of Windsor County, Vermont, United States.

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Yale University Art Gallery

The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Powers

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