Art: Roger Whitehead Photography

Arc angel

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Fish-eye view of the Angel of the North statue, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England

The Angel of the North is Britain's largest sculpture, standing 65 feet (20 metres) high, with a 180-foot (54-metre) wingspan and weighing 195 tons (200 tonnes). It was designed by Antony Gormley and based in part on his own body.

The statue was erected in 1998 alongside the A1 road at Gateshead, overlooking the Team Valley.

Angle runner

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Wide-angle picture of a male runner silhouetted against the setting sun as he rounds the base of the Angel of the North statue, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England

The Angel of the North is Britain's largest sculpture, standing 65 feet (20 metres) high, with a 180-foot (54-metre) wingspan and weighing 195 tons (200 tonnes). It was designed by Antony Gormley and based in part on his own body.

The statue was erected in 1998 alongside the A1 road at Gateshead, overlooking the Team Valley.

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Reflecting

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:20:11 GMT

]]>Mannequin in shop window. Ayr, Ayrshire

Give them a big hand

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:26:36 GMT

]]>Part of the sculpture marking the start of the South West Coast Path. Minehead, Somerset.

It was designed by Sarah Ward and made, in iron and steel, by Owen Cunningham, being unveiled in 2001. The hand is about five feet high.

Hands

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>From a Luttrell family monument. St George's Church, Dunster, Somerset

Reflections in a water sculpture - 1

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Shop lights reflected in part of Aquarena, by William Pye. Millennium Square, Bristol, Avon

Pensive angel

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:41:52 GMT

]]>Semicircular pediment containing cream-coloured (cream-colored) plaster figure in relief of seated angel flanked by two cherubs' heads. Set over side door to Borgund church, Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway.

The church was rebuilt in the Romanesque style in 1904 after a fire. It stands on the remains of the 12th-century St Peter's Church and is situated in the old trading community of Borgundkaupangen, east of central Ålesund.

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Two sphinxes

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>An identical pair of Victorian copies of the Great Sphinx of Tanis, either side of stone steps at Crystal Palace Park, London SE19, England.

The picture is in a light sepia tint, to give it an antique appearance. In the background are trees in full leaf.

The original statue is in the Louvre museum, Paris, France. It has the body of a lion and the head of an unknown Egyptian king. He is wearing a ceremonial headdress and false beard. The sculpture, which is in granite, probably dates from the Egyptian Old Kingdom, around 2600 BCE. Tanis was once the capital of Egypt.

The 200-acre (80-hectare) park was the home of the Crystal Palace from 1854 to 1936, when it burnt down. The iron-framed glass buildings had previously enclosed the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London.

The park is home to Britain's National Sport Centre, as well as containing woods, fields, Italianate terraces, ponds, tennis courts, a maze, an outdoor auditorium, a collection of life-sized model dinosaurs and, formerly, a motor racing circuit. In it are sited two television transmitter masts.

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Paxton

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Bust of Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), designer of the Crystal Palace. It is situated in Crystal Palace Park, London SE19, England.

William Woodington made the large sculpture in 1873, from Carrera marble. The brick plinth is 8 feet (2.4 metres) high.

The 200-acre (80-hectare) park was the home of the Crystal Palace from 1854 to 1936, when it burnt down. The iron-framed glass buildings had previously enclosed the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London.

The park is home to Britain's National Sport Centre, as well as containing woods, fields, Italianate terraces, ponds, tennis courts, a maze, an outdoor auditorium, a collection of life-sized model dinosaurs and, formerly, a motor racing circuit. In it are sited two television transmitter masts.

Joseph Paxton was a successful and famous gardener, garden designer and architect. While head gardener at Chatsworth, the Derbyshire country estate of the Duke of Devonshire, he designed fountains, greenhouses and a model village.

He based the modular, prefabricated design of the Crystal Palace buildings on the structure of the leaf of a South American water lily.

Paxton later designed Mentmore House in Buckinghamshire and Château de Ferrières at Ferrières-en-Brie near Paris, France. For the last 11 years of his life, he was a Member of Parliament.

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Reverse arms

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>War memorial at Clitheroe Castle_B&W

Monochrome image of a statue of a WWI infantry soldier as at a funeral party, with head bowed and rifle inverted in the reverse arms position, It stands on top of the war memorial on the battlements of Clitheroe Castle, Lancashire. The town of Clitheroe lies below in the autumn sunlight, with Pendle Hill in the distance.

The statue is by Louis Frederick Roslyn (born Roselieb), 1878-1934, a prolific sculptor of war memorials.

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John Cabot,

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Bronze bust by Stephen Joyce, erected 1985, sits by Bush House on Narrow Quay, Bristol, Avon

Water scuplture

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Part of Aquarena by William Pye, completed 2000. Millennium Square, Bristol, Avon

Funerary bust of Alberto Marucelli (d. 1917)

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:43:40 GMT

]]>In the Cimitero delle Porte Sante, Florence (Firenze), Tuscany, Italy, The cemetery was laid out laid out in 1854, adjoining the Romanesque (Norman) basilica (church) of San Miniato al Monte (St Minias on the Mountain).

Florence lies below. In the background are the Apennine mountains.