Английская Википедия:Arthur Sullivan Memorial
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox artwork The Memorial to Arthur Sullivan by William Goscombe John stands in Victoria Embankment Gardens in the centre of London. It was designated a Grade II listed structure in 1958.
History
Шаблон:Main Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer best known for his enduring operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert. Prior to his death in 1900, Sullivan had expressed a wish to be buried with other members of his family in Brompton Cemetery in West London. At the command of Queen Victoria, he was instead interred in St. Paul's Cathedral.[1] In 1903, a memorial to him was raised in Victoria Embankment Gardens, close to the site of the Savoy Theatre where many of his and Gilbert's comic operas premiered.[2]
The sculptor was Sir William Goscombe John Шаблон:Post-nominals.Шаблон:Sfn John modelled the head and shoulders bust in bronze,Шаблон:Efn subsequently adding the figure of a disconsolate woman, which he had sculpted in Paris in 1890–1899.Шаблон:Sfn Sources variously describe the figure as representing "Grief"[3] or the Greek muse of music, Euterpe.Шаблон:Sfn
The statue has been described as "the most erotic in London" and inspired a rhyme on that theme (see box).Шаблон:Sfn[4][5] John Whitlock Blundell and Roger Hudson, in their study The Immortals: London's finest statues, note the memorial's "fin de siècle spirit".Шаблон:Sfn
Description
The bust of Sullivan is in bronze and stands on a pedestal of granite.[3] A bronze figure of a woman weeping, her upper body nude and her lower body covered in drapery, leans, as if pressing her body in her grief, against the plinth.[6] Pevsner describes the Art Deco style of the memorial as "in the Père Lachaise manner”.Шаблон:Sfn The plinth also carries lines from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1888 opera The Yeomen of the Guard: "Is life a boon? / If so, it must befall / That Death, whene'er he call, / Must call too soon."Шаблон:Sfn The lines are repeated in the bronze sculpture at the base, which depicts an open book of music, one of the masks of Comedy and Tragedy, and a mandolin. The pedestal is fronted by a semi-circular stone bearing Sullivan's name and dates of birth and death.[7] The memorial is a Grade II listed structure.[3]
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External links
- Шаблон:Commons category-inline
- The Victorian Web – Sir William Goscombe John
- A Walking Tour of Sir Arthur Sullivan's London
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- ↑ "Funeral of Sir Arthur Sullivan", The Times, 28 November 1900, p. 12
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 Шаблон:NHLE
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Parris, Matthew. "I've found a little Eden in London", The Spectator, 5 March 2022
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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