30 Day MEME - Day 17 - An Art Piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)

[debris4spike]

Again I am going to cheat - but in all honesty it is only one (sort of) piece of art work! I attended college for 4 years, and for 3 of those 4 years I walked across or around this piece of art work.

It is an area of London dedicated to an Admiral of the Fleet who was fatally wounded at The Battle of Trafalgar - Yes, you guessed it, his name is Lord Horatio Nelson ... and this is the statue of him -



And here you can see a general view of Trafalger Square, in case you don't know what I am talking about -



However, the real piece of art work I wanted to share were the 4 lions that stand at the bottom of the plinth .... They are truly stunning, and the sheer size of them tends to get forgotten in the context of the whole location. They are stunning in their beauty, and as you can see in this image, their grandure is beautiful -



There are four bronze lions, set on granite plinths, and were sculpted by Sir Edwin Landseer.

Well worth sharing with you all.

Comments

[colored-leaves.livejournal.com]

Just beautiful! Thank you for sharing the history and your feelings for this sculpture. God Bless! :)

[debris4spike]

It is hard when doing these memes to decide what to chose - but when I thought about it, the lions seemed an obvious choice, as they are stunning.

[jaded-jamie.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing these, I like his phallic column, though it;s years since I dont saw it last for reals.

[debris4spike]

It is hard when doing these memes to decide what to chose - but when I thought about it, the lions seemed an obvious choice, as they are stunning. It brought back a lot of memories - not least that I walked that way in May on my way to see James - LOL

[jaded-jamie.livejournal.com]

I can relate everything back to Doctor Who

You can do the same, with James!

Aint life grand :)

*hug*

[debris4spike]

Yay ... James who???

[jaded-jamie.livejournal.com]

LOL hehehe

[jen-nsync-landl.livejournal.com]

I love Trafalgar Square! :) I spent a lot of the weekends of my London research trip in the square and in the galleries there. Great pics.

[debris4spike]

I was very lucky to spend 4 years at college in London - but to actually apreciate some of that fact while there. I would love to go back and spend time seeing these sights again.