Sometimes I talk almost complete rubbish and this happened on Saturday at Holland Park. I was talking to somebody who works at Kew Gardens and she feigned interest that the ten Queen’s Beasts outside the Palm House had been designed by my great-uncle to stand outside Westminster Abbey at the Queen’s coronation.
Category: Sculpture
Lawrence Holofcener
Magna Carta Libertatum
There are four original copies of the charter signed by King John and his barons in 1215. Two of them may be found in the British Library, the others at Lincoln Castle and Salisbury Cathedral. So I didn’t see one yesterday when I went with a friend to Runnymede. She hadn’t been before and I… Continue reading Magna Carta Libertatum
Double-chamfered
Irish Church Monuments
Funerary Masterpieces
What Now? What Next?
A Russian Ramble
Let’s go for a virtual walk round St Petersburg. Jean-François Thomas de Thomon is a French neo-classical architect who designed the Stock Exchange in St Petersburg. Come over to Alexander Park and look at this fine bronze group, The Architects, installed in 2011. Do you recognise Thomas de Thomon? No you don’t because the sculptor… Continue reading A Russian Ramble