Bridges in art

Rendering of proposed new eastern span for San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, designed for more than mere functionality and becoming quite costly to build
The Brooklyn Bridge in this waterfront scene adds depth through both perspective and atmospherics and its diagonal visual mass is compositionally balanced by the dock and building
Claude Monet's Water Lily Pond, painted 1899.
Van Gogh's Le Pont de l'Anglois

A bridge can play many roles in art, for example

Poems

Motion pictures

Songs

Other works

Paintings

References

Homes to sculpture

Bridges are often used as locations for sculptures. Especially popular are animals such as lions, perhaps serving as guardians. Examples are the 485 carved stone lions of the Marco Polo Bridge in China, which was first constructed in 1192, and the four Centre Street Bridge lions of Calgary, which date to 1917.

Another well-known example of a bridge hosting statues is the Charles Bridge in Prague, which is home to 30 statues and statuaries, mostly baroque, dating to around 1700.

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