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Bartholdi

Bartholdi

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A French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty
  • proper noun
: Bartholdi
  • The Egyptian leader Ismail Pasha rejected Bartholdi's plan.
  • Bartholdi's statue
  • Bartholdi's eleven-meter model

Examples

  • What astonishes me thus far is the extent to which I cannot make Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty and Eiffel's Statue of Liberty meet.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Like Bartholdi, Lesseps needed Eiffel's colossal engineering to realize his colossal ambition.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Unlike Bartholdi, Eiffel knew that he needed to allow the statue to breathe in order to make it stable.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Does Eiffel, in this drawing, disregard mass as thoroughly as Bartholdi did?

    Academic text (2003)
  • A series of magnifications were executed from a model designed by Bartholdi: the first a little taller than a meter, the second almost three meters, the last about eleven meters high.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Eiffel's 300-meter-high modern pyramid was almost ten times the size of Bartholdi's giant, and twice as high as any extant structure.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The Eiffel Tower was quite consciously intended to dwarf Bartholdi's creation, as can be seen in a drawing by one of Eiffel's employees.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Bartholdi hoped to author a colossal sculptural punctuation to Lesseps's outsized engineering feat.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Egypt's monuments had played a determinant role in Bartholdi's conceptualization of the role that sculpture could play in the vast engineered spaces of modernity.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The famous Statue of Liberty was created by Bartholdi, a French artist.

Synonyms

A French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor

is the short form using only the surname instead of the full personal name

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Bartholdi comes from the Alsace region on the border of France and Germany and likely comes from the old German name Berthold, which means 'bright' and 'rule'. A helpful way to remember the sculptor Bartholdi is to think of him as a 'bright ruler', a leading artist who created the Statue of Liberty.