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'''''Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia''''', also known as '''''Progress Carrying the Light to Asia''''', was a plan for a colossal [[Neoclassicism#Sculpture|neoclassical sculpture]]. Designed in the late 1860s by [[Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi]], a French sculptor, the project was to be a statue of a robed female ''[[fellah]]'' or peasant bearing a torch at the entryway of the [[Suez Canal]] in [[Port Said]], [[Egypt]].<ref name=Khan2010>{{cite book|last=Khan|first=Yasmin Sabina |title=Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty|url=https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=C0W2mNOrpJUC&pg=PA51|year=2010|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0-8014-4851-4|pages=51–54}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arabamericanhistory.org/archives/the-statue-of-liberty-story-from-egypt-to-new-york/|title=The Statue of Liberty Story, From Egypt to New York {{!}} The Arab American Historical Foundation Home|website=www.arabamericanhistory.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-22}}</ref> The statue was to stand 86 feet high and its pedestal was to rise to a height of 48 feet.<ref name=Smithsonian>{{cite web |last1=Blakemore |first1=Erin |title=The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/statue-liberty-was-originally-muslim-woman-180957377/ |website=Smithsonian Magazine |accessdate=8 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref> The proposed statue was declined by the [[Khedive]], citing the expensive cost,<ref>{{cite book|first=Zachary|last=Karabell|title=Parting the desert: the creation of the Suez Canal|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|date=2003|p=[https://archive.org/details/partingdesertcre00kara/page/243 243]|isbn=0-375-40883-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/partingdesertcre00kara/page/243}}</ref> and in 1869 the [[Port Said Lighthouse]], designed by [[François Coignet]], was built in the same location.<ref name=ABE2014>{{cite journal |last= Piaton |first= Claudine |title= Les phares d’Égypte : laboratoire et conservatoire de l’ingénierie européenne du xixe siècle |trans-title= Lighthouses of Egypt: examples of experimentation and preservation of twentieth century European engineering |via=[[OpenEdition Journals]] |journal= ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe |publisher= InVisu |number= 5 |year= 2014 |lang= fr |url= https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.704 |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref> |
'''''Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia''''', also known as '''''Progress Carrying the Light to Asia''''', was a plan for a colossal [[Neoclassicism#Sculpture|neoclassical sculpture]]. Designed in the late 1860s by [[Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi]], a French sculptor, the project was to be a statue of a robed female ''[[fellah]]'' or peasant bearing a torch at the entryway of the [[Suez Canal]] in [[Port Said]], [[Egypt]].<ref name=Khan2010>{{cite book|last=Khan|first=Yasmin Sabina |title=Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty|url=https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=C0W2mNOrpJUC&pg=PA51|year=2010|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0-8014-4851-4|pages=51–54}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arabamericanhistory.org/archives/the-statue-of-liberty-story-from-egypt-to-new-york/|title=The Statue of Liberty Story, From Egypt to New York {{!}} The Arab American Historical Foundation Home|website=www.arabamericanhistory.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-22}}</ref> The statue was to stand 86 feet high and its pedestal was to rise to a height of 48 feet.<ref name=Smithsonian>{{cite web |last1=Blakemore |first1=Erin |title=The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/statue-liberty-was-originally-muslim-woman-180957377/ |website=Smithsonian Magazine |accessdate=8 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref> The proposed statue was declined by the [[Khedive]], citing the expensive cost,<ref>{{cite book|first=Zachary|last=Karabell|title=Parting the desert: the creation of the Suez Canal|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|date=2003|p=[https://archive.org/details/partingdesertcre00kara/page/243 243]|isbn=0-375-40883-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/partingdesertcre00kara/page/243}}</ref> and in 1869 the [[Port Said Lighthouse]], designed by [[François Coignet]], was built in the same location.<ref name=ABE2014>{{cite journal |last= Piaton |first= Claudine |title= Les phares d’Égypte : laboratoire et conservatoire de l’ingénierie européenne du xixe siècle |trans-title= Lighthouses of Egypt: examples of experimentation and preservation of twentieth century European engineering |via=[[OpenEdition Journals]] |journal= ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe |publisher= InVisu |number= 5 |year= 2014 |lang= fr |url= https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.704 |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref> |
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[[File:Suez projet Auguste Bartholdi.jpg|Thumb|Bartholdi's conceptual rendering for ''Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia.'' Watercolor.]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Minzesheimer|first=Bob|date=June 29, 2014|language=en-US|title=The 'crazy' sculptor who hoisted 'Liberty's Torch'|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/06/29/libertys-torch-by-elizabeth-mitchell-statue-of-liberty/11314301/|publisher=USA Today|access-date=2021-04-26}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:28, 26 April 2021
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 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, the project was to be a statue of a robed female fellah or peasant bearing a torch at the entryway of the Suez Canal in Port Said, Egypt.[1][2] The statue was to stand 86 feet high and its pedestal was to rise to a height of 48 feet.[3] The proposed statue was declined by the Khedive, citing the expensive cost,[4] and in 1869 the Port Said Lighthouse, designed by François Coignet, was built in the same location.[5]
The idea for a statue on the mouth of the Suez was inspired by Bartholdi's encounter with ancient Egyptian giant statuary at Abu Simbel.[3] Bartholdi further researched the ancient Colossus of Rhodes (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which was a 33 meter tall statue of the Greek god Helios at the entrance to the islands main port) and came up with the design of the female fellah, which later in the process evolved into that of a classical goddess.[3]
After the failure of the Egyptian project, Bartholdi recycled his design as Liberty Enlightening the World, better known as the Statue of Liberty, which was installed in the New York Harbor in 1886.[3]
References
- ^ Khan, Yasmin Sabina (2010). Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty. Cornell University Press. pp. 51–54. ISBN 0-8014-4851-4.
- ^ "The Statue of Liberty Story, From Egypt to New York | The Arab American Historical Foundation Home". www.arabamericanhistory.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
- ^ a b c d Blakemore, Erin. "The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ Karabell, Zachary (2003). Parting the desert: the creation of the Suez Canal. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 243. ISBN 0-375-40883-5.
- ^ Piaton, Claudine (2014). "Les phares d'Égypte : laboratoire et conservatoire de l'ingénierie européenne du xixe siècle" [Lighthouses of Egypt: examples of experimentation and preservation of twentieth century European engineering]. ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe (in French) (5). InVisu. Retrieved 9 January 2021 – via OpenEdition Journals.
- ^ Minzesheimer, Bob (June 29, 2014). "The 'crazy' sculptor who hoisted 'Liberty's Torch'". USA Today. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
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