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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
               

 

 

 




External Links

 

  Shoji Okamoto's list of Egyptian obelisks (in Japanese and in English).

  Shoji Okamoto's list of other obelisks (in Japanese and in English).

  "Roman Monographs": Obelisks in Rome.

 

 





Compiled by Remko Scha – October, 2010