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This is a list of public art in Hyde Park, London. A Royal Park since 1536, Hyde Park covers an area of over 350 acres.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History and Architecture )〕 Its present landscaping dates largely to the 18th century, when Queen Caroline introduced the Serpentine among other features, and to the 1820s, when Decimus Burton made improvements including the park’s triumphal entrance at Wellington Arch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Landscape History )〕 This was originally crowned with a colossal equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, removed later in the 19th century. In the immediate vicinity of the arch, at Hyde Park Corner, there is a high concentration of military memorials; this has been called "one of the world's most important groups of war memorials". | date = 1822 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 18 June 1822. Wellington is represented symbolically by the hero Achilles, although the head is said to be modelled on the Duke’s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Monuments in Hyde Park )〕 The statue, partly inspired by the classical sculptures of the ''Dioscuri'' on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, was cast from captured French cannon. The first public nude statue in London since antiquity.〔 | designation = }} | date = 1861 | artist = | architect = | notes = The remains of a drinking fountain originally formed of several large blocks of granite, possibly quarried at Moorswater, Cornwall. This became defunct in 1887 and only a single stone was still standing by 1900. | designation = }} | date = 1863 | artist = | architect = | notes = Moved in 1962 from Hyde Park to the Broad Walk, Regent’s Park. Returned to Hyde Park in 1994, in a different location from its original setting. | designation = }} | date = 1871 | artist = | architect = | notes = Marks the site of a conduit house which supplied the precinct of Westminster with water until the spring was cut off by drainage works in 1861. The building was demolished in 1868. | designation = }} | date = 1880 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 24 May 1880. Inspired by a line from ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'' (1812–18): "To sit on rocks and muse o’er flood and fell". Byron is depicted with his Newfoundland dog, Bo’sun. The marble pedestal, supplied by the Greek government, was added in 1882. | designation = }} | date = 1888 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 21 December 1888. The pedestal is flanked by four soldiers representing the four nations of the United Kingdom. Alfred Gilbert, an assistant in Boehm’s studio, claimed to have modelled the horse. | designation = }} | date = 1899 | artist = | architect = | notes = Made for the garden of Sir Walter Palmer’s house Frognal, in Ascot, Berkshire; presented to Hyde Park by Lady Jean Palmer in 1906. | designation = }} | date = 1908–12 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 2 April 1912. Burton originally intended for a quadriga to surmount his arch, but in 1845 an equestrian statue of Wellington was installed in its place. This was removed to Aldershot when the arch’s orientation was changed in 1883. Edward VII commissioned the present group, but did not live to see its completion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A history of the Quadriga, Wellington Arch )〕 | designation = (with arch) }} | date = 1924 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 21 May 1924 at Stanhope Gate; moved in 1961 for the widening of Park Lane.〔 The armour was based on that of the fifteenth-century effigy of the Earl of Warwick at St Mary’s, Warwick, the horse’s furniture on that found in Dürer’s engraving of ''Saint George''.〔 | designation = }} | date = 1925 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 10 May 1925 by the Duke of Connaught. Re-erected on current location in 1962. The second bronze model for the figure stood in Chelsea Embankment Gardens from 1963 until it was stolen in the 1970s; it has been replaced by a replica. | designation = }} | date = 1925 | artist = | architect = (lettering) | notes = Unveiled 19 May 1925 by Stanley Baldwin. Located near the Bird Sanctuary erected in Hudson’s memory, the memorial depicts the bird-spirit Rima, a character from his novel ''Green Mansions'' (1904). A controversial early work by Epstein which was dubbed "the Hyde Park Atrocity" by its detractors. | designation = }} | date = 1925 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 18 October 1925 by the Duke of Connaught. The regiment demanded a "realistic" memorial and got one, crowned with a howitzer rendered in stone. The figure of a dead soldier shrouded in a greatcoat was still, however, found to be unsettling. | designation = }} | type = Plaque | location = Hyde Park Lido Pavilion | coordinates = | date = 1953 | artist = | architect = | notes= Lansbury established the Hyde Park Lido in 1930.〔 The plaque in his honour was installed as part of the post-War reconstruction of the Lido Pavilion. | designation = }} | date = 1962 | artist = | architect = | notes = Mitchell was chosen for this commission by the architect Sir Frederick Gibberd, with whom he had collaborated previously. The murals use a combination of traditional and experimental mosaic techniques. Another set of mosaics which was part of the same redevelopment scheme, at Hyde Park Corner, has been removed. | designation = }} | date = 1963 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 25 June 1963; the site was formerly occupied by Munro’s ''Boy and Dolphin'' (see above). Originally titled ''Joy of Life'', this was the last commission of the Constance Fund. The fountain basins were redesigned and the work’s name changed in 2000–1. | designation = }} | date = 1975 (after an original of 1896) | artist = | architect = | notes = A replica in artificial stone of a lost Art Nouveau original, described as depicting a "winged child with fish".〔 The name "Little Nell" has apparently only been attached to the work more recently; it has also been referred to variously as the "Colton Memorial" and the "Mermaid Fountain".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Memorial Fountain (1896), Hyde Park, London, by William Robert Colton RA )〕 | designation = }} | date = 1978 | artist = | architect = | notes = A large Precambrian boulder mounted on three smaller stones. Presented by the Norwegian Navy and Merchant Fleet in thanks for Britain’s support in World War II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Norwegian War Memorial )〕 | designation = }} | date = 1983 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 28 June 1983; the first public memorial in Britain to victims of the Holocaust. The largest boulder bears an inscription from Lamentations (3:48) in Hebrew and English: FOR THESE I WEEP/ STREAMS OF TEARS FLOW/ FROM MY EYES/ BECAUSE OF THE DESTRUCTION/ OF MY PEOPLE. | designation = }} | date = 1985 | artist = | architect = | notes = Commemorates the four soldiers of the Blues and Royals regiment who were killed in the IRA bombing of 20 July 1982 near this spot.〔 The horses killed by the bomb are commemorated by a water trough, which was moved from the Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in 1985 to serve as a memorial.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fountain: Hyde Park bomb—the horses )〕 | designation = }} | date = 1990 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled in 1990 by Queen Elizabeth II. Inscribed ''To the memory of/ ''QUEEN CAROLINE''/ wife of George II/ for whom/ the Long Water/ and Serpentine/ were created/ between/ 1727–1731''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Queen Caroline memorial )〕 | designation = }} | date = 1993 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 6 July 1993 by Queen Elizabeth II. Lund intended for the gates to be "feminine and fresh with the charm of an English garden", in contrast to their formal and "masculine" setting. There was much public criticism of the design. | designation = }} 〕 | designation = }} | date = 2001 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled in July 2000 by Tony Benn. Depicts a tree near this site which burnt down during the Reform League Riots in 1866, the stump of which became a notice board for political demonstrations.〔 | designation = }} | date = 2003 | artist = | architect = Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects | notes = A curving granite wall inscribed with the names of 24,000 Australian towns and villages and of battles in both World Wars. Water runs down parts of the wall and slabs up against it bear the country’s coat of arms and military badges. | designation = }} | date = 2004 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 6 July 2004 by Queen Elizabeth II. A low, granite oval, 210 metres in circumference, with water coursing along it.〔 The fountain was plagued by blockages and injuries and had to be closed off twice for repairs in its first two years.〔 | designation = }} | date = 2004 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 24 November 2004 by Princess Anne. Two heavily laden mules are shown trudging towards an opening between two swelling Portland stone screens; beyond lies a grass mound with a cavorting horse and dog. | designation = }} | date = 2006 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 11 November 2006 by Queen Elizabeth II. Consists of 16 bronze X beams (or "standards"), six of which are arranged in the shape of the Southern Cross constellation. | designation = }} | date = 2009 | artist = | architect = Carmody Groarke Architects ''et al''. | notes = Unveiled 7 July 2009 by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, on the fourth anniversary of the terrorist bombings. The 52 victims are commemorated by stainless steel stelae.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=7 July Memorial )〕 | designation = }} | date = 2009 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 7 September 2009. 1,000 plaques around the base were sold to donors for personalised inscriptions at £1,000 each, as a way of funding the park’s Isis Education Centre for introducing young people to the study of nature. Donated to the park by the Halcyon Gallery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Isis'' )〕 | designation = }} | date = 2009 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 23 September 2009. A stainless steel sphere decorated with petals of oxidised bronze.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Freeman Family Drinking Fountain )〕 Donated to the park by Michael Freeman, a property developer and trustee of the Royal Parks Foundation, and his wife.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Michael Freeman )〕 | designation = }} | date = 2010 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 14 September 2010. The largest freestanding bronze sculpture in London at 33 ft high. Replaces a previous version temporarily installed on this site; commissioned by Sir Anthony Bamford and his wife, it is now on their estate in Daylesford, Gloucestershire. | designation = }} ==References== 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「List of public art in Hyde Park, London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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