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Bartholdi

American  
[bahr-thol-dee, -tol-, bar-tawl-dee] / bɑrˈθɒl di, -ˈtɒl-, bar tɔlˈdi /

noun

  1. Frédéric Auguste 1834–1904, French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty.


Bartholdi British  
/ bartɔldɪ /

noun

  1. Frédéric August . 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty

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In the most cerebral passages, Aurora prods Bartholdi to reconceive the meaning of his giant feminine statue by considering the way women’s bodies are remembered and dismembered.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022

Up close, this object from the workshop of Frédéric Bartholdi looks fragile, homemade, almost medieval, an uneven grid of glass and copper rising into the familiar shape of the flame holding against the wind.

From Slate • May 14, 2019

Bartholdi had enlisted the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, who designed the torch-bearing arm, but he died in 1879 without devising a plan for the rest of the statue.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2019

As designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and delivered to America in 1885, the torch is more than 16-feet tall and 12-feet across.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2018

Its water front, from opposite Bartholdi Statue to Hoboken, is conspicuously marked by Railroad Terminal Piers, Factories, Elevators, etc.

From The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Bruce, Wallace