Richmond: Houdon's Washington

"That is the man himself. I can almost realize he is going to move."
-- The Marquis de Lafayette

Tracy L. Kamerer and Scott W. Nolley have written an in-depth article about Houdon's George Washington, the magnificent portrait in marble dominating Richmond's Capitol rotunda. The article, with its excellent photographs, is available on the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation website.

Warsaw: Mariano Bennliure y Gil

Travelling between Richmond and Virginia's Northern Neck, one may see Spanish sculptor Mariano Bennliure's memorial to William Atkinson Jones, at historic St. John's Church in Warsaw. The sculpture was a gift to the town from the Phillipino people in appreciation of Jones' 1916 sponsorship of the bill for Phillipino independence.