This Tremendous Stone Sphinx (a Mythological Creature With the Body of a Lion and the Head of a Human) Which Serves as a Memorial to Those Who Died in the American Civil War Can Be Found at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on July 24, 2017)
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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Posted: April 28, 2022 in Cemeteries, Lions, Monuments, Mythological Creatures, Sculptures, Sphinxes, Statuary, Stone Carvings, War MemorialsTags: Cambridge MA, Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Posted: July 24, 2017 in Cemeteries, Lions, Monuments, Mythological Creatures, Sculptures, Sphinxes, Statuary, Stone Carvings, War MemorialsTags: Cambridge MA, Mount Auburn Cemetery
This Tremendous Stone Sphinx (a Mythological Creature With the Body of a Lion and the Head of a Human) Which Serves a a Memorial to Those Who Died in the American Civil War Can Be Found at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA
Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA
Posted: August 31, 2015 in Angels, Cemeteries, Sculptures, Sphinxes, StatuaryTags: Angel of Death, Daniel Chester French, Forest Hills Cemetery Jamaica Plain MA, James and Martin Milmore
Daniel Chester French’s Famous Memorial (Located at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain) for His Fellow Sculptors, James and Martin Milmore, Depicts the Angel of Death Stilling the Hand of a Young Artist (the Sphinx, That He’s Working on, Is a Reference to the Granite Memorial to Union Soldiers Sculpted by the Milmore Brothers, Which Can Still Be Seen Today at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA)
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