The bronze statue, sculpted by Antonin Mercié, depicted Confederate general Robert E. Lee atop a horse. A friend of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who likely helped him secure the commission, Mercié was chosen due to his international stature. [11]

Oct 27, 2023 · The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been …

Sep 8, 2021 · More than a year after Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the 12-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to be removed, it was lifted from its pedestal in Richmond, Va., to be placed into...

Oct 26, 2023 · A project in Charlottesville, Va. seeks to upend the narrative around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the center of deadly white nationalist protests there in 2017.

The Robert E. Lee Monument was an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller located in Charlottesville, Virginia's Market Street Park (formerly Emancipation Park, and before that Lee Park) in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District.

Oct 27, 2023 · A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into new works of art.

Jan 5, 2022 · Months after its removal from Richmond’s Monument Avenue, an enormous equestrian statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee has found a likely new home.

Sep 8, 2021 · The Robert E. Lee statue was the largest Confederate monument on Monument Avenue and was one of the final ones still standing following the protests which erupted in the summer of 2020, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

Dec 30, 2021 · The massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., taken down in September, will be moved to the city's Black History Museum, Gov. Ralph Northam and Mayor Levar Stoney ...

Sep 8, 2021 · — A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as work crews hoisted an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee off the giant pedestal where it had towered over Virginia’s capital...

Sep 9, 2021 · RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Richmond for generations was taken down, cut into pieces and hauled away Wednesday, as the former capital of the Confederacy erased the last of the Civil War figures that once defined its most prominent thoroughfare.

Sep 14, 2023 · In October 2020, the New York Times named the Lee Monument as the most influential piece of post-World War II protest art in the country. Simultaneously in June 2020, Governor Ralph Northam’s administration was trying to remove the equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee from the Lee Monument.

The massive equestrian sculpture and base that made up this monument were erected to commemorate General Robert E. Lee, leader of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the U.S. Civil War.

Sep 8, 2021 · One of the largest Confederate monuments in the U.S. came down Wednesday as workers removed a figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Virginia's capital city for more than a century...

Sep 8, 2021 · An imposing statue of an American Confederate general in Richmond, Virginia, has been taken down. Governor Ralph Northam announced it would come down amid national protests after the death of ...

Sep 8, 2021 · The 12-ton statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, which has become a national symbol of America’s reckoning with racism in the past year, was removed this morning.

Oct 27, 2023 · The controversial bronze statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that stood for nearly a century in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down so that it may someday be transformed...

Sep 8, 2021 · Now, the state is announcing new plans for the base that used to hold the massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. They're going to remove a 133-year-old copper time capsule inside...

Sep 23, 2021 · The massive equestrian sculpture and base that made up this monument were erected to commemorate General Robert E. Lee, leader of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the U.S. Civil War.

Robert E. Lee Luce Center Label Anthony de Francisci’s plaster relief commemorates Civil War general Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) and was probably created as a design for a medal. The Confederate flags at the lower left and right recall Lee’s command of the Southern armies, whose bayonet points appear just beyond the hill in the background.

Sep 8, 2021 · An imposing statue of an American Confederate general in Richmond, Virginia, has been taken down. Governor Ralph Northam announced it would come down amid national protests after the death of ...

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