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The King Jagiello Monument is an equestrian monument of king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Władysław II Jagiełło, located in Central Park, New York City. Raised on its grand plinth it is one of the most prominently-sited and impressive of twenty-nine sculptures located in Central Park. The monument is sited overlooking the east end of the Turtle Pond, across from Belvedere Castle and just south-east from the Great Lawn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Central Park Conservancy )〕 To the northeast is Cleopatra's Needle and beyond, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ==History== The bronze monument was created for the Polish 1939 New York World's Fair pavilion by the Polish sculptor Stanisław K. Ostrowski (1879-1947). It stood at the Fair's entrance at Queens' Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Central Park: King Jagiello Monument )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Government Zone (Zone 1) Poland )〕 Ostrowski's name is engraved in the front lower right-hand corner. The monument commemorates the medieval Battle of Grunwald, where Polish and Lithuanian knights supported by Ruthenian, Czech, and Tatar knights defeated the Teutonic Order. ''POLAND'' is inscribed on both sides of the plinth. This bronze monument was made for the Polish 1939 New York World's Fair pavilion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Government Zone (Zone 1) Poland )〕 The statue at the World's Fair was a replica of a King Jagiello memorial in Warsaw that was converted into bullets for World War II by the Germans after they entered and occupied the capital of Poland. King Władysław II Jagiello is shown seated on a horse holding two crossed swords over his head as a symbol of defiance and of the union of Polish-Lithuanian forces. Known as the Grunwald Swords, they were the invitation to battle offered to the king and his ally Vytautas the Great in an ironic gesture by Ulrich von Jungingen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. As a result of the German invasion of Poland that marked the beginning of the Second World War, the personnel and equipment of the Polish World's Fair pavilion was forced to remain in the United States. Unlike much of the rest of the pavilion which was sold to the Polish Museum of America in Chicago, the monument stayed in New York, thanks in part to mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia publicly lobbying to keep the statue. The statue was presented to the City of New York by the King Jagiello Monument Committee, with support from the Polish government in exile in July 1945, when it was permanently placed in Central Park with the cooperation of the last consul of the Second Polish Republic or pre-communist Poland in New York, count Józef Kazimierz Krasicki and unveiled by him.〔Zosia Przerwa Tetmajer, ''Władysław Jagiełło w Centralnym Parku Nowego Yorku (sic)'', "MY: Biuletyn", nr 15 (rok 51), 15 grudnia 1993, p. 6.〕 Parks Chief Consulting Architect Aymar Embury II (1880–1966) designed the granite pedestal. ''POLAND'' is inscribed on both sides of the plinth. The monument was conserved in 1986 by the Central Park Conservancy.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「King Jagiello Monument」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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