Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Albert Memorial
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Albert Memorial
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Image View:
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Detail, Albert's hand holding a catalogue of the Great Exhibition
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Creator:
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George Gilbert Scott I (British architect, 1811-1878); Henry Hugh Armstead (British sculptor, 1828-1905); John Birnie Philip (British sculptor, 1824-1875); John Henry Foley (Irish sculptor, 1818-1874) and others
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Location:
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site: London, England, United Kingdom
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Location Note:
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South Kensington; South Carriage Drive
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GPS:
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+51.5025-0.177778
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Date:
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1863-1876 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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British
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Style Period:
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Gothic Revival; Nineteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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monument
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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gilded bronze; marble; enamel and glass mosaic
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Technique:
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carving (processes); casting (process); construction (assembling); metalworking; mosaic (process); painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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176 ft (height)
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Inscription:
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On four sides: Queen Victoria And Her People . To The Memory Of Albert Prince Consort . As A Tribute Of Their Gratitude . For A Life Devoted To The Public Good
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Subjects:
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allegory; decorative arts; human figure; portrait; rulers and leaders; Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861; Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
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Description:
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Commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband, Prince Albert who died of typhoid in 1861. In 1863 Scott's design for the memorial to Prince Albert in Hyde Park, London, was chosen , but not until 1876 was J. H. Foley's gilded statue of the Prince finally set in its great Italian Gothic tabernacle [ciborium, derived from the Scaliger Tombs, Verona], enriched by Scott's favorite craftsmen, including the sculptors Henry Hugh Armstead, John Birnie Philip and J. F. Redfern (1838-1876), the stone-carvers Farmer & Brindley, the ironworker Francis Skidmore and for the mosaics the designer J. R. Clayton (1827-1912) and the maker Antonio Salviati (1816-1890). The central part of the memorial is surrounded by the elaborate sculptural Frieze of Parnassus, which depicts 169 individual composers, architects, poets, painters, and sculptors. Armstead carved the figures on the south and east side, the painters, musicians and poets (80 in total), and grouped them by national schools. John Birnie Philip carved the figures on the west and north side, the sculptors and architects, and arranged them in chronological order. At the corners of the plinth there are two allegorical sculpture programs: four groups depicting Victorian industrial arts and sciences (agriculture, commerce, engineering and manufacturing), and four more groups representing Europe, Asia, Africa and The Americas. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Seven
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Identifier:
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1A1-SGG-AM-C8
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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