Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia, also known as Progress Carrying the Light to Asia, was a plan for a colossal neoclassical sculpture.

The statue is called The Spirit of Progress, and depicts the goddess Diana, dressed in flowing robes, balancing on a globe, and holding a torch in her right hand and a caduceus in her left hand. [5] [6]

2019年5月15日 · The Chicago Tribune had acclaimed the new statue as “rivaling in beauty New York’s famous ‘Diana.'” And small wonder; with her torch held high some 390 feet above the street. the gleaming figure of Progress was visible over …

The former Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) in Bombay, designed by architect F. W. Stevens, is crowned by a huge 14-15'-tall statue of Progress, executed by Thomas Earp (1828-1893) in marble, and dating to 1887.

2003年3月17日 · The Chicago Tribune had acclaimed the new statue as “rivaling in beauty New York’s famous ‘Diana.'” And small wonder; with her torch held high some 390 feet above the street, the gleaming figure of Progress was visible over …

Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia, also known as Progress Carrying the Light to Asia, was a plan for a colossal neoclassical sculpture. Designed in the late 1860s by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi , the project was to be a statue of a robed female Saeid Misr or "Upper Egyptian" bearing a torch at the entryway of the Suez Canal in ...

2024年12月16日 · The Spirit of Progress has been atop the former Montgomery Ward Administration Building since 1929 near the North Branch of the Chicago River. The building is now a condominium and the...

2024年12月16日 · The Spirit of Progress, a statue installed on top of the Montgomery Ward administration building in 1929, was taken down Saturday for repairs. It will be reinstalled in the spring. A Forest...

That structure was topped with a statue of city founder William Penn. Affixed to the top of the Montgomery Ward Building was an eighteen-foot-tall weathervane by Scottish-born artist J. Massey Rhind entitled The Spirit of Progress, which became the symbol of the company and appeared on storefronts and catalogs.

2024年12月18日 · The Statue of Progress—commonly referred to as Diana, the Roman Goddess of the Hunt—was carefully removed from her perch in Chicago for a long-overdue restoration.