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This is a list of public art in Kensington Gardens, one of the Royal Parks of London. When the contemporary sculptor Anish Kapoor held an exhibition of his work in the gardens in 2010 he remarked that they are "the best site in London for a piece of art, probably (best ) in the world". ==City of Westminster== | date = 1851 | artist = | architect = | notes = Made in Coalbrookdale for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Installed at the entrance to Lancaster Walk in 1852 and moved to their present location in 1871, during construction of the Albert Memorial.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Monuments in Kensington Gardens )〕 | designation = }} | date = 1858 | artist = | architect = | notes = | designation = }} | date = 1858 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled by Prince Albert in Trafalgar Square in 1858. After pressure from anti-vaccinationists the statue was moved in 1862 to the Italian Gardens at Kensington,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jenner statue )〕 which were conceived by Albert and laid out by Pennethorne. The rest of the sculpture in the ensemble is by John Thomas. | designation = }} | date = 1864 | artist = | architect = | notes = A red granite obelisk, an appropriate form of commemoration for an explorer so associated with the River Nile. The pedestal inscribed IN MEMORY OF/ SPEKE/ VICTORIA() NYANZA/ AND THE NILE/ 1864. The phrasing avoids crediting Speke with the discovery of the Nile’s source, as this was a contentious point. | designation = }} | date = 1907 (installed) | artist = | architect = | notes = Installed 24 September 1907. Developed by Watts from his equestrian bronze ''Hugh Lupus'' (1870–84) for the Duke of Westminster. Gifted to the nation on Watts’s death in 1904, though the cast had not yet been made from the ''gesso'' model (now in the Watts Gallery). An earlier bronze cast was incorporated into the Rhodes Memorial (1906–12) in Cape Town, South Africa. | designation = }} | date = 1912 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled in secret on May Day 1912. The character’s creator, J. M. Barrie, commissioned the sculpture and chose the site, which is Peter’s landing point in the book ''Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens''. Questions were raised in Parliament about the propriety of an author promoting his work in this way.〔〔 〕 | designation = }} | commonscat = | type = Drinking fountain with sculpture | location = Palace Gate | coordinates = | date = 1961 | artist = | architect = | notes = A small bronze figure of a terrier on a platform rising from the centre of a shallow circular pool.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kensington Gardens )〕 | designation = }} | date = 1970 | artist = | architect = | notes = Statue of two embracing bears originally placed in 1939 to commemorate 80 years of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. The original was stolen but was replaced with a copy in 1970.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kensington Gardens )〕 | designation = }} | date = 1976 | artist = | architect = | notes = Inscribed: ''This drinking fountain marks the site of an ancient spring, which in 1856 was named St Govor’s Well by the First Commissioner of Works, later to become Lord Llanover. Saint Govor, a sixth century hermit, was the patron saint of a church in Llanover which had eight wells in its churchyard.'' | designation = }} | date = 1979–80 | artist = | architect = | notes = Presented by Moore to the nation for installation in Kensington Gardens in 1980, two years after his eightieth birthday exhibition in the nearby Serpentine Gallery. Dismantled in 1996 due to structural instability and re-erected in 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Arch by Henry Moore )〕 | designation = }} | date = 1997 | artist = | architect = and Andrew Whittle (lettering) | notes = Pastoral poetry is inscribed on each element of the work. The plaque at the entrance of the gallery is inscribed with the names of trees found at Kensington Gardens a quotation from the eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London )〕 Diana was a patron of the Serpentine Gallery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About us )〕 | designation = }} | date = 2012 | artist = | architect = (of Moxon Architects) | notes = The winner, alongside ''Watering Holes'' in Green Park, of a RIBA-judged design competition; it was commended for its "formal clarity and elegance".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Trumpet Drinking Fountain )〕 Of the two designs this was thought to be the more "design-led" and ''Watering Holes'' the more "art-led". | designation = }} 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 Kensington Gardens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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