Victoria Memorial (London)
The Victoria Memorial is a 26 m high group of figures made of Lasa marble in London in honor of Queen Victoria of Great Britain ; it stands at the southwest end of The Mall, right in front of Buckingham Palace .
history
Unveiled in 1911, the monument with the gilded goddess of victory and the allegorical female figures placed below her was designed by Sir Aston Webb and executed by the sculptor Thomas Brock . Rather out of fashion at the beginning of the 20th century, the baroque national monument, consisting of around 2300 tons of marble, is nevertheless an impressive example of public sculptures.
The monument was erected on an area where mulberry trees were used to raise silkworms in the Middle Ages . Because the breeding did not work as planned, a country house was built on the property in 1703. In 1763 the royal family bought the now expanded house and had it expanded into a royal palace, today's Buckingham Palace.
See also
- Albert Memorial , memorial to her deceased husband
literature
- Bamber Gascoigne: Encyclopedia of Britain . BCA, London, New York, Sydney, Toronto 1993, ISBN 0-333-54764-0 , p. 670.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 6.6 " N , 0 ° 8 ′ 26.3" W.