Thursday 5 January 2012

Botanic Gardens, Summer

'Summer' is a Victorian era sculpture located in the Royal Botanic Gardens. This is one of the 'Four Seasons' statues that adorn the Palace Gardens Steps. They came from Italy in 1883 from the studio of Charles Francis Summers, an Australian-born sculptor living in Rome. The steps were their original location but later they were separated and distributed around the gardens, where some lost vital body parts and adornments. They were restored by Australian sculptor Jacek Luszczyk who recreated missing parts. The restored statues were unveiled in their original location in 2010. 'Springand 'Summer' are located at the top of the steps, with 'Autumn' and 'Winter' located at the bottom.

25 comments:

  1. We have similar statues in our public park here in Vicenza... are very nice !
    Kisses.

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  2. Χρόνια πολλά ευτυχισμένος ο καινούργιος χρόνος με υγεία και χαρά.

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  3. Lovely. It's so good that it was restored. It's sad to see beautiful statues that have fallen into disrepair.

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  4. I kind of liked the idea of them being at different spots in the gardens, but maybe there's safety in numbers hey Jim.

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  5. Happy New Year !
    Best wishes from France,

    Pierre

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  6. A marvelous sculpture...so happy they've been restored and returned to their original positions! Excellent photo!

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  7. Nice one, Jim. The four seasons sculptures is a very popular theme for garden statuary, often found in many of the great public parks and grand private gardens around the world.

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  8. i think scattering them around the garden is the perfect spot.

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  9. You have to love summer - largely unclothed, flowers, fruit, sunshine :)

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  10. 'Summer' is just stunning. What a wonderful piece.

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  11. She looks cool and magestic, nicely taken.

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  12. It would be fun to tour the garden looking for all four seasons. She looks very nice. And I could use a little summer about now!

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  13. It's nice to see summer even if it is only a pic and is actually a sculpture!

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  14. I like the classical statues. This one is lovely.

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  15. Who wants missing body parts?! Glad they were restored!

    Happy New Year!

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  16. Pat, it's certainly good to be able to get the missing parts recreated. :)

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  17. Statues and gardens go together like two peas in a pod. This is one beautiful one. A lovely capture. genie

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  18. Happy New Year! and what a joy to see true summer!

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  19. I like how you've posted a photo of each of these four season statues, during that particular season.

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  20. The 'seasons' are an attractive set of sculptures.

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