Paired Peace Monuments N. This page is selective and incomplete. It does not show all monument pairs. Click here for long list of artists who have created two or more peace monuments. Click here for monument groups three or more monuments per group.
Right click image to enlarge. May God and humanity bear witness thereto so that it may be praised from generation to generation. Next to the Imperial War Museum. Contains a "Language Pillar" "replica of a 9th century treaty stone in Lhasa acknowledging the rights of Tibetans and Chinese to co-exist in peace" and sculptures by Hamish Horsley of New Zealand. Much admired in the 15th century. Circa - Statue of Pax by P. Baratta, Garden of Pavlovsk Palace , St. Petersburg Russia. Marble sculpture by George Gianetti, after Luigi Persico.
Draped in simple flowing robes, Peace holds an olive branch in her left hand. Interpretation changed after the German victory over France in when the woman became Victoria, the goddess of Victory, by adding a Prussian eagle on an iron cross to her ensemble.
Changed again to a symbol of the Third Reich when the Nazis reached power in the 's. The face of the charioteer leading the quadriga is that of a small boy actually the son of Lord Michelham, the man who funded the sculpture. The largest bronze sculpture in Europe. Gift from France. Dedication lower left image attended by John F. Kennedy [] representing his father, the US Ambassador in London.
Lower right image shows a stele plaque about 10 meters high which was erected in to mark the spot. Moved to Museggstrasse in Closed in due to lack of patronage during World War I. Friedrich also owned the pleasure boat " Pax Vobiscum " on the River Spree. In 15 years after the death of its founder , AKM was reopened by his grandson Tommy Spree sic ; its current address is Brusseler Strasse 21, Berlin. The statue was cast from melted military armaments, and hauled thirteen thousand feet to the top of the mountain by the armies of both nations.
