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#Lion dude has been here for 188 years; no wonder he looks fed up! #WorkingAway #ShapWells #QuirkyHotel not a soul-less chain; and much better value!
#Statue #Statuary #QueenVictoria's accession 1837

A square statue base in a field. POV: image taken from one corner, showing two sides of the base. On one side, a carving of a lion, the other a tablet dedicating the statue to Queen Victoria on her accession in 1837. Both sides are heavily weathered and various lichen colonies have taken hold. The lion has a lichen roundel on its nose giving it a somewhat fed up expression

Through the years, “Minerva” has been one of the more consistent aspects of the downtown Minneapolis library. She was there in 1889 when the first central library was built at 10th Street and Hennepin Avenue, and she stood perched over its entryway, in a niche between two windows on the second floor, for decades. When the next library opened at Third Street and Nicollet Mall in 1961, the 1,700-pound bronze beauty made the move there as well. Her adventures continued over time, including a foray to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for a “Minnesota 1900” exhibit and eventually a place of honor at the new Minneapolis Central Library in 2006.
—from the Hennepin County Library web site

https://www.hclib.org/about/art/art-list-container/art-list/mc/minerva

#libraries #statuary #art

After multiple restorations and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly restored Apollo Belvedere has been unveiled at the Vatican Museums to much fanfare and praise.

https://wildhunt.org/2024/11/the-icon-of-beauty-apollo-belvedere-restored-and-unveiled-at-vatican.html

#apollo #apollobelvedere #vatican #statuary #arthustory #pagan #museum

"National Cat Day" teableau for 10/29/24

#Tea #Teableau #Teapot #Antiques #VintageChina #Statuary #Embroidery #BlackTea #HarneyandSons #GingerbreadTea #Cats

A tea tableau for National Cat Day with a large stonecast cat at the center, gazing limpidly into the camera. It is surrounded by an elegant, antique white teapot, creamer, and lidded sugar bowl with gold bead edging, a vintage white cup & saucer, and a white & gold tea tin of Harney and Sons Gingerbread Festival black tea. It all rests upon a grey linen placement embroidered with autumn leaves in muted earth tones.

That angel in Highgate Cemetery

#highgatecemetery #highgatecemeteryeast #angel #blackandwhite #London #highgate #dartmouthpark #kentishtown #statuary #sculpture

Archaeoethnologica: COMPLUTUM Nº 34/2 - 2023

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/04/complutum-n-342-2023.html

#Archaeology #tartessian #statuary #Cogotas #Gallaecia #Hispania #jewelry #metallurgy #rockart #palelithic #journals #BronzeAge #Protohistory #IronAge #journals #OpenAccess

Local #BenchArt
#GenevieveTowsley (1907-1995) was a local journalist, author, and historian. She frequently wrote articles featuring local immigrant families, and her stories resulted in a nearby pool becoming racially integrated. Her work to save a historic building founded the #NapervilleHeritageSociety.

Her bench is very inviting. Pedestrians often stop to rest or take a selfie with Genevieve. She sits outside of a #BarnesAndNoble bookstore, at the corner of Washington St and Chicago Ave in #Naperville #Illinois.

Genevieve's #sculpture has been here many years, but Naperville is known for its wide variety of #SidewalkSculpture displays, which are changed out frequently. The artist is Pamela Carpenter of nearby Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

#Statuary #Statue #Statues #Sculpture #Memorial #BenchArt #PublicArt #StreetArt #StreetScuplture #GenevieveTowsley #LocalHistory

Links of Interest:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-05-20-9905200356-story.html

https://www.centurywalk.org/impact/art_details.cfm?artID=12

https://illinoisgravestones.org/view.php?id=17921

https://www-illinoistimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.illinoistimes.com/arts-culture/my-mother-the-columnist-journalist-and-historian-11437829?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&media=AMP%20HTML&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17045930347428&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.illinoistimes.com%2Farts-culture%2Fmy-mother-the-columnist-journalist-and-historian-11437829

In Naperville, Illinois, USA:
Statue/sculpture of an older lady seated on a bench, with a space for people to sit next to her. She is holding a pad of paper, with a pen poised over the paper as if writing. Her face is looking slightly up (seemingly at someone walking past or standing near), and she is smiling warmly.

Behind the lady statue is a storefront window for a Barnes & Noble bookstore. (The bookstore is moving to another nearby town in a few weeks. I don't know what will be replacing it.)

The artist is Pamela Carpenter of Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

Image of a black plaque with gold letters, on a red brick wall. The plaque reads:

Genevieve Towsley
1907-1995
Naperville journalist, author, and historian

Come sit with Genevieve if you may
She'll lend her ear to what you say

She "pounded the pavement" and upon her search
This journalist wrote of community, county, and church

Her stories meandered through our everyday life
Writing of our neighbors' joys and strife

Like the fruited vine upon arbor sound
Her columns became our history in written bound

Come sit with Genevieve if you may
She's a 20th century icon in every way.

Pamela S. Carpenter, Post and Sculptor
May 1999

[At the corner of Washington Street and Chicago Avenue, Naperville Illinois, January 2024]

#statuary
#blackandwhite
#blackandwhitefilmphotography
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🗿"it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary" 🗿

"Rainbringer" and "Rainbringer (Alternate Version)"

Another set of photographs from the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill taken in 2015. I have not published these for sale as they depict a fountain that I did not build myself and fall into grey areas of copyright law.

#Fountain #Turtles #Statues #Statuary #Garden #BotanicGarden #Autumn #Fall #AutumnLeaves #Foliage #Photography #Landscape #NewEngland #Massachusetts

A fountain where a sculpted turtle is projecting a stream of water from its mouth that moves from the left to the right as a steady stream before becoming large droplets that splash into the water below. Green trees are in the background along with a red deciduous tree on the right side. Pink, yellow and red flowers are in the background alongside a small set of stairs. The sky is filled with ominous dark grey/blue clouds. A brick building is visible on the right side behind a red tree in autumn.

#TripleGoddess #DianaCamera #120Film #AnalogFilm #photography #AnalogPhotography #TripleExposure #Diana #VintageDiana #NotLomo #cemetery #statuary

black and white photograph of a cemetery statue. triple exposure on a vintage diana camera depicting a mysterious hooded human figure, androgynous, mysterious

"A Forgotten Song"

One of a handful of photos of mine that is not for sale. In this case the reason being the ever changing copyright laws regarding photographs and paintings of statuary. It's better safe than sorry, but I still like this photograph.

#Statuary #Pan #GrecoRoman #Autumn #Fall #Forest #Garden #Photography #Rejects #Portrait #Mythology #NewEngland

A statue of Pan with pipes in hand against an autumn forest of deciduous and fir trees.

Statue by Stoldo Lorenzi, Boboli Gardens, Florence

#photography #statuary #Neptune #Boboli #StoldoLorenzi #garden #Florence #Tuscany

Statue of Neptune about to spear something in a garden pond.

Nicholas Kadzungura's massive sculpture entitled "Chapungu // Eagle" watches over a steating area where visitors to the gallery may rest and discuss art and nature.

#Kadzungura #Leopardstone #parkbench #botanicalgardens #sculpturegarden #statuary #gardensculpture #gardenbench #ironbench

Today's Thing of Beauty: #BlenheimPalace #Blenheim #Woodstock #Oxfordshire #England #UnitedKingdom #UK #Garden #statuary #photography Photo by me.

I watched this local news story fully intending to make fun of it but nope. This old lady with Alzheimer’s liked to wave at her alien statue every morning. Then some prankster abducted it! The family has looked for another alien statue but can’t find one with that “waving stance.”

RETURN HER ALIEN!

#aliens #abduction #alzheimers #statuary #LocalNews #PureMichigan #michigan #charity #community

https://www.woodtv.com/news/newaygo-county/alien-statue-stolen-from-102-year-old-woman-near-grant/

Still rooted tree carving of saintly figure at church in Jeníkov CZ #ThickTrunkTuesday #statuary #Tuesday

Tree carved into shape of religious figure

Lawrence Alma-Tadema's "Unconscious Rivals" gives us the pleasant sight of two pampered girls luxuriating in the warm caress of summer's air, their beauty adorned by the flowers and the softly-lit stone and statuary.

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #flowers #statuary #sculpture

https://boffosocko.com/2020/06/07/55771957/

https://boffosocko.com/2020/06/07/55771959/

@phooky @sculpin

• #flanuary walking around the city thinking deep thoughts while eating spanish pudding
• #squaruary keep going with what "works"
• #statuary post stats about statues

#Statuary

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