Youssef Howayek - Sculptures

Sculptures

  • Sculpture of the Patriarch Elias Howayek
  • Sculpture of Youssef Beik Karam
  • Sculpture of Daoud Corm, the painter
  • The first sculpture for Martyrs Square in Beirut (in 1916 the square was named Martyrs Square in tribute to the Lebanese nationalists executed by the Ottomans. The first Martyrs' Monument is of two women, a Muslim and a Christian. It is now exhibited in Sursok Museum garden.)

"The soul is a heavenly flower that cannot live in the shade, but thorns can live everywhere." This is from a letter to Youssef Howayek from Gibran in 1911. From Kahlil Gibrarn: A Self-Portrait. (FIUL, Citadel Press, 1959), p. 26. FLOWERS; MAN; SHADE; SOULS; THORNS 19870300

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