The 17 metre tall Gustav Vigeland granite Monolith of entwined human figures surrounded by granite sculptures, Vigeland Park, Oslo, Norway

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The Monolith depicts 121 human figures clinging and floating together. Men and women of different ages crowned with children. It is 17 metres tall and the granite stone came from a quarry in Iddefjord Norway. Carved from a single piece of granite weighing 280 tonnes which arrived in Oslo in 1929. What is little known is that the 14 year long sculpting process was carried out by 3 stonemasons. Swede Nils Jonsson, Dane Karl Kjaer and Norwegian Ivan Broe. The Monolith was revealed to the public in 1943. The press called the sculpture a masterpiece but Vigeland himself had died a few months before the unveiling

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Size: 3927px × 5749px
Location: Oslo, Norway
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