Thursday, 2 July 2015

Albert Memorial / south (x2)

Architect: Sir George Gilbert Scott et al, 1863-72. Extravagant Gothic Revival memorial to the Prince Consort, restored in the 1990s. Grade I listed. City of Westminster, London. 
Detail of outer sculptured group 'Europe' by Patrick McDowell, 1876, in marble. I think the bull comes from a myth about Zeus turning into a bull and abducting Europa.

(both pics CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)