Italian fisherman Paolo Fanciulli has constructed numerous underwater sculptures which destroy unsustainable fishing nets around Tuscany.
His sculptures protect integral seagrass and has allowed for the return of endemic fish and dolphins.

Franz Stassen's illustrations for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

Personification of Countries

Most countries in the western world are personified as women. These "goddesses" however are more than meets the eye.

Columbia is the modern incarnation of the Goddess Libertas in America, she is depicted either as nurturing or armed. She takes some hints from Isis and Hecate as the statue of Liberty, but America is the Land of "Liberty".

The Lady of the Mountain is actually part of the folklore of Iceland, with obvious elements of Icelandic history like the raven and rune stave. Mountains in Iceland are referred to as women, so she also doubles as the queen of mountains.

Britannia finds her origins in Brigantia a synchronized Gallo-Roman Athena/Brigid.

Marianne is also based off Libertas and also draws parallels to Joan of Arc, another pagan mythic figure. (She was burned as a witch).

While Germania largely served as a means with which to unify and represent a free German republic, she has grown to be reminiscent of Holle surrounded by infants.

-TLK