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The Guildhall Art Gallery houses the art collection of the City of London, England.The museum is located in the Moorgate area of the City of London. It is a stone building in a semi-Gothic style intended to be sympathetic to the historic Guildhall, which is adjacent and to which it is connected internally.
La Ghirlandata ("The Garlanded Woman") is an 1873 painting by English painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti. [1] It is currently in the collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery in London, United Kingdom. [2] The model who sat for the painting was Alexa Wilding. [3]
A sheela na gig is a figurative carving of a naked woman displaying an exaggerated vulva. These carvings, from the Middle Ages, are architectural grotesques found throughout most of Europe [ 1 ] [ 2 ] on cathedrals , castles , and other buildings.
Guildhall crypt. During the Roman period, the Guildhall was the site of the London Roman Amphitheatre, rediscovered as recently as 1988.It was the largest in Roman Britain, partial remains of which are on public display in the basement of the Guildhall Art Gallery, and the outline of whose arena is marked with a black circle on the paving of the courtyard in front of the hall.
More images: Dick Whittington and His Cat: Guildhall Art Gallery: 1999: Lawrence Tindall: Richard Gilbert Scott: Architectural sculpture — [26] More images: Bust of Samuel Pepys: Guildhall Art Gallery: 1999: Tim Crawley: Richard Gilbert Scott: Architectural sculpture — [26] More images: Bust of Oliver Cromwell: Guildhall Art Gallery: 1999 ...
The name "Gogmagog" is commonly derived from the biblical characters Gog and Magog; [1] however, Peter Roberts, author of an 1811 English translation of the Welsh chronicle Brut Tysilio (itself a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae), argued that it was a corruption of Cawr-Madog (' the giant or great warrior Madog '), supported by Ponticus Virunnius' spelling of the ...
Main article: Walter Gilbert (sculptor) Crewe war memorial, Crewe, Cheshire. This List of works by Walter Gilbert includes the works of Walter Gilbert alone and those done in collaboration with other individuals such as Louis Weingartner, both with the Bromsgrove Guild and H.H. Martyn & Co. of Cheltenham. He also worked with his son, Donald Gilbert, and H. H. Martyn. Early works Work Image ...
Karin Löwenadler was born in London to Swedish parents and attended the Slade School of Art from 1933 to 1936. [2] At the Slade she won prizes in both painting and sculpture and decided to abandon her original ambition to become a cartoonist and concentrate on sculpture.