Neptune stands guard over the Water Garden at Phipps Conservatory.
Cameras: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3 and Olympus E-20n.
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Neptune
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Panther by Giuseppe Moretti
Four panthers by Giuseppe Moretti decorate the ends of the Panther Hollow Bridge. Below we see the signature of the artist in the bronze.
Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS.
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Hygeia
Giuseppe Moretti’s statue of Hygeia, goddess of health and proper hand-washing, stands as a memorial to physicians from Allegheny County who served in the First World War.
Camera: Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Robert Burns by J. Massey Rhind
This is one of several Robert Burns statues that J. Massey Rhind made for various cities in the United States. Pittsburgh’s was sponsored by Andrew Carnegie and other prominent Pittsburghers of Scots ancestry.
Cameras: above, Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3; below, Olympus E-20n.
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Welcome Sculptures by Giuseppe Moretti at the Highland Avenue Entrance to Highland Park
One of Pittsburgh’s two most famous and most prolific sculptors (the other being Frank Vittor), Giuseppe Moretti decorated the entrances to Highland Park with extraordinary bronzes. Note that these two opposite figures are matching but entirely different: Moretti sculpted them from two different models and posed them differently, thus making literally twice as much work for himself as an ordinary sculptor would.
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Decorations on the Rear of the Westinghouse Memorial
The Westinghouse Memorial is one of our best works of public art, and the thoroughness of the execution is one of the best things about it. It is meant to be seen from the front, but if you wander behind it you will find, not a blank wall, but lovingly detailed bronze decorations that almost no one ever sees.
Camera: Olympus E-20n.
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A Railing in Heinz Hall
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Remembering Those Who Served in the Civil War
The Civil War monument in Richland Cemetery, Dravosburg. The sculpture bears a maker’s plaque: “Manufactured by the W. H. Mullins Co., Salem, Ohio, U.S.A.”
Camera: Kodak EasyShare Z1485 IS.
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H. J. Heinz Memorial Plaza, Sharpsburg
H. J. Heinz started his business in Sharpsburg, and he gave this plaza in the center of the town as a token of his gratitude. The bronze reliefs are by the notable sculptor Emil Fuchs. The main section of the top panel is an allegory of Industry; the main part of the lower panel shows H. J. Heinz himself teaching Sunday school at Grace Methodist Church.
The statue of an Indian, always identified as Guyasuta, is a duplicate of a duplicate. Heinz gave the town a splendid fountain, which was knocked down by a car in the 1930s. The statue of Guyasuta was replaced from the original molds, but that replacement was run over by a truck in the 1980s. This current incarnation has not been smashed yet.
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Hygeia
Giuseppe Moretti’s sculpture of Hygeia stands in Schenley Park as a memorial to the physicians who served in the First World War.
