A rather regal-looking lion on the 'crown' of the Stewart Memorial Fountain in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park. The fountain was created in 1872 from a design by James Sellars with sculptures by the legendary John Mossman.
It was on a day just like this one that the Glasgow University professor William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin, first managed to calculate the true value of absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature in the Universe.
This is, what girls admire boys for (or their statues): a big #cucumber in their shorts. 😆
(As a local newspaper was writing about that #statue of an international football heroe born on #Madeira 🙈)
Das ist, wofür Mädchen Jungs anhimmeln (oder deren Statuen): Eine dicke Gurke in ihrer Hose. 😆
(Wie eine lokale Zeitung bei Enthüllung über die Statue des internationalen Fußball-Helden schrieb, der auf Madeira geboren wurde. 🙈)
The first Yerres sculpture biennial took place in 2007.
Blending all artistic sensibilities, from figurative to abstract, bronze to wood, terracotta, cardboard and metal, the biennial showcased the vibrancy of sculptural creation in France.
The Caillebotte estate is an ideal place to exhibit such work: the vast gardens are magnificent, and the orangery can accommodate the more fragile pieces.
Now free for all to read... When I visited Inverness, Scotland, in June 2019, I happened upon these three stone ladies by the roadside. They have a virtuous past: