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Angels Frieze, (sculpture). Artist:  Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste, 1834-1904, sculptor. Title:  Angels Frieze, (sculpture). Dates:  1872. Medium:  Sandstone and copper. Description:  A stone frieze along the top of the church bell tower which contains four group of figures that illustrate Matrimony, Baptism, Communion, and Death. Each corner of the frieze contains an angel playing a copper trumpet. The faces of the figures were modeled after, Lincoln, Emerson, Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Garibaldi. Subject:  Religion -- Angel Allegory -- Death Ceremony -- Religion -- Baptism Ceremony -- Religion -- Communion Ceremony -- Wedding Object -- Musical Instrument -- Trumpet Portrait male -- Garibaldi, Giuseppe -- Head Portrait male -- Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Head Portrait male -- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth -- Head Portrait male -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Head Portrait male -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Head Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Boston Architectural component Relief Sculpture Owner:  First Baptist Church, Clarendon Street & Commonwealth Avenue, Bell tower, Boston, Massachusetts Remarks:  IAS files contain an excerpt from Jeffrey Karl Ochsner's "H. H. Richardson Complete Architectural Works," Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1982, pg. 73-74. References:  Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1998. Illustration:  Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "H. H. Richardson Complete Architectural Works," Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1982. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 87740050   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 87740050 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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