Jefferson's statue in this week's prompt reminded me that it's just a block of stone.
To Michelangelo, "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
Among my photo archives there a few statues tucked away. However my first statue is a bronze that sits upon a block of stone.
The whistle has blown for full time this week if you need to see match of the day you need to transfer over to Sepia-Saturday-220.
Among my photo archives there a few statues tucked away. However my first statue is a bronze that sits upon a block of stone.
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| The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen |
Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" was published in 1837; her statute was 100 years old in 2013. She stands (or rather sits) 1.25 metres high and weighs a mere 175 kilograms.
Quite a contrast with the Imperia statue, at Konstanz at the western end of Lake Constance in the south-west corner of German, bordering Switzerland.
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| Imperia, Konstanz |
She is 9 metres high and weighs 18 tonnes. Her name refers to Balzac's short story "La belle Imperia" which satirises the Catholic clergy.
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| Imperia (Cropped from Imperia statue by User Fb78 [Wikipedia Commons] - CC BY-SA 2.0) |
She holds two men in her hands - Pope Martin V and Emperor Sigsmund.
In Tresco Abbey Gardens on Tresco, Isles of Scilly the statue is much more down to earth.
Gaia
In Greek Mythology Gaia was the personification of the Earth.
I'm not allowed to include the my photo of Gaia and someone attempting to be a lookalike. Don't you just hate the photo bombers?
More than one England football captain has played at Middlesbrough but only one has his statue outside the ground.
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| George Hardwick |
A former Boro' player, George Hardwick was the first England football captain after WWII.
