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This is a list of public art in Oxfordshire, ... Sculpture: Bronze: 1m tall Oxford City Council A gift to Oxford in 2009 to commemorate 60 years of twinning with the ...
The Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford. [1]The Shelley Memorial is a memorial to the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) at University College, Oxford, England, the college that he briefly attended and from which he was expelled for writing the 1811 pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism".
The Headington Shark (proper name Untitled 1986) is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house. It was protest art, put up without permission, to be symbolic of bombs crashing into buildings.
Michael Black (1928 – 14 February 2019) was a British sculptor who lived and worked in Oxford.He is best known for carving the Emperors' Heads outside the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.
The huge sundial on All Souls College, Oxford The Fettiplace monument in Swinbrook parish church Doorway of the Divinity School in Oxford The Danby gateway to the Botanic Garden rebuilt c.1653. William Bird or Byrd (1624–c.1691) was a 17th century English sculptor. He seems to have served Oxford University for many
During the redevelopment, Oxford Archaeology undertook the archaeological investigations on behalf of Oxford City Council. [6] In May 2009 a multi-part sculpture by Diana Bell was set in the square "to commemorate sixty years of exchange" between the cities of Bonn and Oxford. Titled "Knowledge and Understanding" but known locally as "Books ...
Dying Gaul, or The Capitoline Gaul, [1] a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE, Capitoline Museums, Rome Assyrian lamassu gate guardian from Khorsabad, c. 800 –721 BCE Michelangelo's Moses, (c. 1513–1515), San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, for the tomb of Pope Julius II Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th-century Japan, ivory with shell inlay The Angel of ...
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (/ æ ʃ ˈ m oʊ l i ən, ˌ æ ʃ m ə ˈ l iː ən /) [2] on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. [3] Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677.