Is that only argument that you got?
At this point, they have... anybody have more credibility than CNN or CBS who posted this last night.
It says "statue originally an Egyptian peasant".
Is that inaccurate?
"It says "statue originally an Egyptian peasant".
Is that inaccurate?"
Yes it is inaccurate, because the Statue of Liberty was modelled on the Ancient Roman Goddess Libertas who herself was inspired by/modelled on the ANCIENT Egyptian Goddess Isis.
And also Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was originally going to construct an entirely different statue based on an ANCIENT Egyptian peasant girl.
Coyote there is a difference between the Ancient Egyptians and the Egyptians. These what can only be termed Propagandists and perverters of Ancient History are peddling this absolute horsecrap to attempt in a vile and twisted way to say The Statue of Liberty was based on a Muslim woman, when she wasn't.
According to the Liberty Island museum, the model for the face of the Goddess of Liberty, was Bartholdi's mother, Charlotte Beysser Bartholdi.
I've heard that also.
I think it is fair to say there were many influences. People shouldn't get so upset.
"People shouldn't get so upset."
People should get upset when essentially Propagandist hacks and so-called researchers are deliberately perverting established and corroborated Ancient History so a sinister Agenda can be pushed further into the psyche of incredibly ignorant people who know no better and so will just absorb this horsecrap.
This is no different than them insisting that George Washington was actually a Chinaman and Martin Luther King was a White man.
The thing is though, the statue today WAS based on an Egyptian woman, not an ancient Egyptian. And the original design was reused and revised. So the claim isn't a lie, it's just an interesting bit of the statue's history, and main reason for outrage seems to be god forbid - it could be a Muslim. The hidden irony, which also seems to upset people, is that this bit of the statues history, is now seen in light of the ban on Syrian refugees. No one cared two years ago, when Smithsonian wrote its article. No one cared five years ago, when Berenson published his book.
This source isn't a liberal one, it's considered conservative:
The Statue of Liberty was modeled after an Arab woman
The statue's designer, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, was enamored with Egyptian pyramids and monumental sculpture. According to historian Edward Berenson, in the 1860s, Bartholdi decided to build a monument to commemorate the opening of Egypt's Suez Canal.
"And that monument was going to be a woman in the southern opening of the canal holding up a torch over her head and that woman was dressed in Arab peasant garb,” Berenson says. But when the ruler of Egypt, Khedewi Ismail Pasha, went bankrupt, the colossal Suez sculpture project was jettisoned.
But the artist soon found a way to recycle his design. “A couple of years earlier, Bartholdi and his friends decided they were going to give a gift to the United States that was going to celebrate the centennial of the American Revolution,” Berenson explains. “And then, Bartholdi thought, ‘Ah! I’ve got a great idea!
I can reuse this image but change it to fit the American Revolution.’”
Bartholdi changed the woman that was originally dressed in Arab garb into a Greco-Roman goddess of liberty. And the Statue of Liberty, as we know her today, was born.
