1 of 9

Slide Notes

DownloadGo Live

The Green Lady

Published on Nov 20, 2015

No Description

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

LADY LIBERTY

BY:KIARA FORD and KHALIA BRYANT

LOCATION

  • sculpted on Liberty Island
  • In the middle of New York Harbor
  • Manhattan New York City

The Statue of Liberty is a girl because it represents Libertas which is a Roman goddess of freedom who bears a torch and a tabula ansata(a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date AMERICAN DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE July 4 1776

Lady Liberty is a gift from the people of France to the United States

The Lady is 1,813 inches tall.
It was dedicated on October 28 1886

The purpose of the Statue of Liberty is because it's an icon of freedom of the United States welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.

Due to the statue liberty's age, the chemical reactions between metal & water which is a patination. A patination happens when copper is placed outside. The original color of the green lady was a shiny reddish-brown color.

The Statue of Liberty was created by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.

Untitled Slide