I bet that at Christmas, they put pots of poinsettias around her and holiday lights wrapped up the columns! The statue is lovely, and even the architecture isn't too bad, but the placement is undesireable. (I really was on the floor trying to see around the leaves.) A statue aiming for the sky needs some sky around it. A similar statue of Diana down in San Diego is outside in a spaciaous plaza, and I could lie under it and get a shot along her bow arm without too much problem. If I can find that slide, I'll try to scan it. This one is from the Huntington Gardens/Museum and the collector had fairly good taste, but the placement in many cases is piss-poor. Most of the statuary is of hunters or hunted, but they are stuck under trees or against conflicting backgrounds. This might be typical of his era: wealth amassed and displayed all jumbled together willy-nilly. I'd rather have one really nice statue (such as this one) and have it carefully positioned... like the way a Japanese gardener will bring a distant mountain or the echo of water to improve and augment a simple rock. :sigh: Carolly