Showing posts with label statues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statues. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

PICK OF THE PIX: POP POET

Here's another favourite photo from my flicker photostream...

Today, Martin Jenning's wonderful statue of Sir John Betjeman on London's St Pancras Station, the masterpiece of Victorian architecture which the former Poet Laureate helped save from dereliction...


Inscribed around the base of the statue are words from Betjeman's poem 'Cornish Cliffs':

And in the shadowless unclouded glare
Deep blue above us fades to whiteness where
A misty sea-line meets the wash of air.


Wednesday, 7 November 2012

PICK OF THE PIX: BOY WARRIOR

The first in an occasional series of posts featuring a favourite photo from my flickr photostream.

Today: Donatello's bronze statue of David (circa 1440s) Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy...