Sculpture #6 - Commemoration

Chapter 6 - Sculpture, Memory & Commemoration

Blessed Ludovica Albertoni

Blessed Ludovica Albertoni
- Bernini (1598-1680, Italian)
- marble (over life-size) 1671–74
- Church of San Francesco a Ripa (Rome)

A funerary monument of Ludovica Albertoni (1473-1533), who was an Italian Roman Catholic noblewoman from the Renaissance period.

Tomb of Queen Elizabeth I

Tomb of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1558-1603) of England
- Westminster (London)

Elizabeth had ruled England for 45 years.

In February 1603, when Elizabeth was 69, her health began to fail. At her palace of Richmond, restless with fever, she couldn't eat or sleep, but still she did everything she could to stave off the moment when her kingdom would go on without her, refusing to make a will or to name an heir, or even to move from the floor cushions on which she lay. 

The Death of Elizabeth I, Queen of England
- Paul Delaroche (1797–1856, French)
- oil on canvas (422 x 343 cm) 1828
- Louvre Museum (Paris)

On 24 March 1603, Elizabeth died. And with her died the Tudor dynasty - the family line that her father had gone to such lengths to continue. As Elizabeth breathed her last, horsemen raced North to Edinburgh, to tell James VI, the Stuart King of Scotland, that he was now also King of England.

Edith Cavell Memorial

Edith Cavell Memorial
- designed by Sir George Frampton
- marble and granite (12 m) 1920
- St. Martin's Place (London)

Dedicated to Edith Cavell (1865–1915), a British nurse who was captured and executed by the enemy in WW1.

Nelson's Column

A victory column dedicated to Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) of the British Navy.

Nelson's Column 

- designed by Wm Railton & sculpted by E.H. Baily

- granite and bronze (51.6 m) 1840-1843

- Trafalgar Square (London)

The pedestal is decorated with 4 bronze relief panels, each 5.5 m square, cast from captured French guns. They depict 4 naval battles, including the one at Trafalgar (above) in which Nelson died in destroying Napoleon's navy.

The four bronze lions around its base were added in 1867.

The sarcophagus of Nelson
in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral

The Cenotaph

The original temporary structure, erected for a peace parade following the end of the WW1, was replaced in 1920 by a permanent structure and designated the UK's official national war memorial.

The Cenotaph
- designed by Edwin Lutyens; unveiled 1920
- Whitehall (Westminster, London)

THE GLORIOUS DEAD

After WW2, it is for the British Empire (later Commonwealth) dead of both World Wars and the British military in later wars.

* Lutyens' cenotaph design has been reproduced elsewhere in the UK and in other countries of historical British allegiance including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Bermuda and Hong Kong (below).

The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - John McDermott

The Royal Artillery Memorial

In Proud Remembrance of the 4976 of All Ranks of the Royal Regiment of Artillery Who Gave Their Lives for King And Country in the Great War 1914—1919

The Royal Artillery Memorial
- designed by Charles Jagger & Lionel Pearson
- stone memorial 1925
- Hyde Park Corner (London)

The memorial features a giant sculpture of a “BL 9.2-inch Mk I” howitzer upon a large plinth of Portland stone, with stone reliefs  depicting scenes from the conflict.

Four bronze figures of artillerymen are positioned around the outside of the memorial.

 

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The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial

Commemorating the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew of RAF Bomber Command, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids, in the Second World War.

The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial
- Liam O'Connor (designed memorial)
- Green Park (London)

Sculpture within the memorial
- Philip Jackson (designed sculpture)
- unveiled in 2012 by QE-II

Marking the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew of RAF Bomber Command (from Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Poland and other allied countries) during the Second World War.

Avro Lancaster PA474 bomber 

  

Vietnam Veterans Memorial  

Occupying 2 acres (8,094 m²) in Washington D.C., this U.S. national memorial honors service members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War, service members who died in service in Vietnam/South East Asia, and those service members who were unaccounted for during the war.

The Three Servicemen Statue
(White, Black, Latino)
- Constitution Gardens (Washington, D.C.)

 

Statue of three uniformed women tending to a wounded soldier
- Vietnam Women’s Memorial (Washington, DC)

Looking upward and forward to 'copter transport.

 

  "Reflections of My Life"

The Wall
- Maya Lin (1959-, architect) in 1982
- black granite (two right trapezoids, each 3.1-to-0.2 x 75.2 m )
- Constitution Gardens (Washington, D.C.)

(Maya Lin is a niece of architect 林徽因.)

Source: Wikipedia

Reference: Learning to Look at Sculpture (Mary Acton)