Bartholdi, a famous French sculptor, spent 10 years painstakingly carving the statue. The shape design of the goddess comes from the sculptor's mother. The right hand of the goddess holding the torch is based on the sculptor's wife's arm.
The Statue of Liberty, dressed in ancient Greek-style clothes and wearing a radiant crown, has seven sharp peaks, symbolizing the seven continents and four oceans of the world. The goddess held a torch with a length of 1 2m symbolizing freedom in her right hand, and a declaration of independence engraved with1776 in her left hand, with broken handcuffs, fetters and chains at her feet. She symbolizes freedom and freedom from tyranny. On the pedestal of the granite statue, a well-known poem by American poetess Emma Nasaroach is engraved. The internal structure of this wrought iron statue was designed by gustave eiffel, who later built the Eiffel Tower. /kloc-completed and unveiled on October 28th. 1886.
The Statue of Liberty is 46 meters high, its pedestal is 93 meters high and its weight exceeds 200 tons. It is made of metal and placed on a concrete base. The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty was built by the famous Joseph Pulitzer, who raised 654.38 million dollars. Now the base is the American Museum of Immigration History.
1984, the Statue of Liberty was listed as a world cultural heritage.
The whole bronze statue takes 120 tons of steel as the skeleton, 80 tons of copper as the outer skin, and 300,000 rivets are assembled and fixed on the bracket, with a total weight of 225 tons.