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STATUES (TALLEST)
STATUES (TALLEST). The tallest statue in Dubuque is that of Mary Frances CLARKE at CLARKE COLLEGE. The actual bronze casting of Mary Frances Clarke is nine feet tall. The actual height of the statue from the ground to the top of a brick cross is about eighteen feet. The statue, designed by Clarke art professor Douglas Schlesier, was installed on the campus in 1993. The Celtic cross behind the bronze casing represents Mary Frances Clarke's Irish heritage. The college's other three co-founders are represented in bronze reliefs surrounding the base. Also on the base are four columns recovered from Sacred Heart Chapel that burned in 1984.
The bronze Martin Luther statue on the Wartburg campus is the second tallest statue. Although the statue installed in 1921 is eleven feet, the total height of the statue from the ground to the top of Luther's head is nearly seventeen feet.
The statue of Bishop Mathias Loras on the campus of LORAS COLLEGE itself stands around twelve feet tall, however, the limestone boulder on which the statue sits is four feet high for a total of sixteen feet. This statue designed by Italian sculptor Vincenzo Miserendino was first displayed in 1939.
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Source:
1. "Ask the TH," Telegraph Herald, May 19, 2010, p. 3