We just learned about the statue Spinning Girl by Rudolph Schadow in 1810 in Rome.
Another famous neoclassical sculpture is George Washington by Horatio Greenough in 1832 in America.
We learned a while back of one of the most famous sculptures of Zeus at Olympia that was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
When Greenough was asked to make a statue of George Washington to be outside the US Capitol building, he felt that Washington was such an important person in history that he should be looked up to like the Greeks looked up to Zeus.
So he made a statue of George Washington that looked just like the old statue of Zeus at Olympia, with one arm raised to heaven and another holding out a sword to show Washington handing over the power to the people.
A lot of people did not like the statue because Washington did not have a shirt on, and it made it look like he was a god and not just a person to be respected, so eventually they moved the statue away from the capitol and into a museum.
(from: wikipedia - george washington (greenough))
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