<P> Artists of the 18th and 19th centuries striving to evoke republican ideals commonly used representations of Libertas as an allegorical symbol . A figure of Liberty was also depicted on the Great Seal of France . However, Bartholdi and Laboulaye avoided an image of revolutionary liberty such as that depicted in Eugène Delacroix's famed Liberty Leading the People (1830). In this painting, which commemorates France's Revolution of 1830, a half - clothed Liberty leads an armed mob over the bodies of the fallen . Laboulaye had no sympathy for revolution, and so Bartholdi's figure would be fully dressed in flowing robes . Instead of the impression of violence in the Delacroix work, Bartholdi wished to give the statue a peaceful appearance and chose a torch, representing progress, for the figure to hold . </P> <P> Crawford's statue was designed in the early 1850s . It was originally to be crowned with a pileus, the cap given to emancipated slaves in ancient Rome . Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, a Southerner who would later serve as President of the Confederate States of America, was concerned that the pileus would be taken as an abolitionist symbol . He ordered that it be changed to a helmet . Delacroix's figure wears a pileus, and Bartholdi at first considered placing one on his figure as well . Instead, he used a diadem, or crown, to top its head . In so doing, he avoided a reference to Marianne, who invariably wears a pileus . The seven rays form a halo or aureole . They evoke the sun, the seven seas, and the seven continents, and represent another means, besides the torch, whereby Liberty enlightens the world . </P> <P> Bartholdi's early models were all similar in concept: a female figure in neoclassical style representing liberty, wearing a stola and pella (gown and cloak, common in depictions of Roman goddesses) and holding a torch aloft . According to popular accounts, the face was modeled after that of Charlotte Beysser Bartholdi, the sculptor's mother, but Regis Huber, the curator of the Bartholdi Museum is on record as saying that this, as well as other similar speculations, have no basis in fact . He designed the figure with a strong, uncomplicated silhouette, which would be set off well by its dramatic harbor placement and allow passengers on vessels entering New York Bay to experience a changing perspective on the statue as they proceeded toward Manhattan . He gave it bold classical contours and applied simplified modeling, reflecting the huge scale of the project and its solemn purpose . Bartholdi wrote of his technique: </P> <P> The surfaces should be broad and simple, defined by a bold and clear design, accentuated in the important places . The enlargement of the details or their multiplicity is to be feared . By exaggerating the forms, in order to render them more clearly visible, or by enriching them with details, we would destroy the proportion of the work . Finally, the model, like the design, should have a summarized character, such as one would give to a rapid sketch . Only it is necessary that this character should be the product of volition and study, and that the artist, concentrating his knowledge, should find the form and the line in its greatest simplicity . </P>

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