In the 19th century, sculpture consisted principally of portrait busts and heroic or commemorative monuments and was generally connected to architecture or place.

One of his less heroic and more moving monuments is the "Tragedy of Peoples," a memorial to the victims of World War II.

In terms of architecture, he says, this manifests itself in open roads and intersections, devoid of the sort of heroic monuments that proliferate in Europe.

"We don't necessarily need to build these heroic monuments to the golf architects," Mr. Simmons said.

The national Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington angered some conservatives and veterans with its somber design, so unlike the heroic monuments normally associated with war memorials.

He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style.

A heroic monument to her design was erected in Mtskheta, Georgia, in 1949.

Allward's 1917 heroic monument, the Bell Telephone Memorial, has been seen as the finest example of his early works.

Allward's true talent lay in his heroic monuments.

Among them are Maderno's copies of heroic antique monuments, particularly those depicting Hercules wrestling with one opponent after another.