Statue of Liberty

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The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, a hollow colossus composed of thinly pounded copper sheets over a steel
framework, was designed in Paris by the French sculptor Frederic Bartholdi, in collaboration with the French engineer
Gustave Eiffel, who was responsible for its frame, intended as a gift from France for the centenary of American
independence in 1876.


The Statue of Liberty is located in New York City, the capital of global capital, is designed by French sculptor
Frederic-Auguste
Bartholdi , who love the sculpture of Egypt during his visit to Egypt in 1855 and then visited a second time after
the opening of the Suez Canal and presented to the Khedive Ismail, the ruler of Egypt at this time, Project to build
a huge statue of a peasant girl lever arm and wearing a pharaonic headdress, and was built specifically to be placed on
the gate west of Egypt, Port Said, near the Suez Canal, by more than 200 years.

All this from the imaginative scruffles of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the Alsatian-French sculptor who'd fallen in love
with his own Orientalist fantasies about the Middle East after a trip to Egypt's Luxor spreads in 1855. He liked Egypt's
colossal sculptures, those "granite beings of imperturpable majesty" with their eyes seemingly "fixed on the limitless
future." He liked just as much the then-fashionable notions of Europeans thinking themselves the "Orient"'s best thing
since unsliced baklava. Bartholdi returned to Egypt in 1869 with the blueprints for a toga-draped giant of a woman who'd
double-up as a lighthouse at the entrance of the Suez Canal, which opened that year to fanfare and
stockholders' delight.

Financing for the pedestal was completed in August 1885, and pedestal construction was finished in April of 1886.
The Statue was completed in France in July, 1884 and arrived in New York Harbor in June of 1885 on board the French
frigate "Isere" which transported the Statue of Liberty from France to the United States. In transit, the Statue was
reduced to 350 individual pieces and packed in 214 crates. The Statue was re-assembled on her new pedestal in four months
time. On October 28th 1886, the dedication of the Statue of Liberty took place in front of thousands of spectators.
She was a centennial gift ten years late.


To find out more information
http://middleeast.about.com/od/middleeast101/a/statue-of-liberty-egypt.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty