"This is Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon, artfully aiming her bow and arrow. Posed on tiptoe, she is fleetingly static, depicted in a split-second moment of physical and narrative suspense. The figure's graceful, simplified lines and elongated proportions reward from all angles, a note to her original public function as a rotating weathervane for the tower of Madison Square Garden (demolished 1925) one of New York's most popular landmarks." This is actually a half-size version of the weatherane statue, created by the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. That is some weathervane, huh? Perhaps the most beautiful weathervane I have ever seen!
Hard to imagine the original statute being 18 feet tall. If this new one is 6.5 feet, it is still very large up on a pedestal. Lovely photo.
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Trying to imagine this beautiful 18 foot statue as a weathervane - incredible! So glad that you included a photo of the original. So unique! I am really enjoying all the photos from your trip to NYC. betsey
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