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Obelisks
Senusret I, Heliopolis, 20th Century B.C.
[Photo: Felix Bonfils]
Thutmose I, Karnak, 1500 B.C.
[Photo: Guillaume Lelarge, 2005]
Hatshepsut, Karnak
15th Century B.C.
Cleopatra's Needle, Heliopolis, ca. 1450 B.C.
[As installed in Central Park, New York,
in 1880 C.E.]
Thutmose III, ca. 1450 B.C.
[Fragment, installed in Istanbul
by Theodosius I, 390 C.E.]
Thutmose III, Tekhen Waty, ca. 1450 B.C.
[As installed in Laterano, Rome,
by Constantius II in 357 C.E.]
L'Obélisque
Ramses II, Luxor, 13th Century B.C.[Gift from Egypt to France, 1830.
Installed at Place de la Concorde,
Paris, 1836]
Arles
340 C.E. / 1776 C.E.
Thomas Picton, Carmarthen
1828
Leo von Klenze: Kriegsdenkmal
Karolinenplatz, München, 1833
Alessandro Torlonia
Rome, 1842
Robert Mills: Washington Monument
Washington D.C., 1848-1885
Enrico del Debbio: Mussolini Dux
Foro Italico, Rome, 1932
Arturo Dazzi:
Obelisco dedicato a Guglielmo Marconi
EUR, Rome, 1937
Auguste de Marmont: Pyramide élevée à Napoléon I ("Pyramide van Austerlitz")
Woudenberg, The Netherlands, 1805 [Engraving by Louis Pierre Baltard,1806]
Hubert Robert:
Paysage animé à l’obélisque cassé et trois pyramides
1790's
Barnett Newman:
Broken Obelisk, 1963/1967
Compiled by Remko Scha October, 2010