TIMELY WISDOM

Saturday, July 6, 2013

NYPL Lions

NYPL’s Riverdale Library has two new lions guarding the entrance. We need your help naming them and the deadline is Friday! Visit the event page to learn more or check out the article on The New York Times’ City Room blog. Just remember that Patience and Fortitude are already taken!

NYPL’s Riverdale Library has two new lions guarding the entrance. 


































Lion Bookends—Pair

Edward Kemeys's (American, 1843–1907) stately lion statues that flank the museum entrance have inspired these replica bookends. Perfect on an office desk or for bookshelves at home.  Our lions are not identical and thus are named for their poses.  Our lion pictured on the left "on the prowl" with his tail pointing down.  Our lion pictured on the right is  "stands in an attitude of defiance," with his tail pointing up.   Our lions are cast in polyresin stone and mounted on a wooden base.






Fallen Angel Monument - Buen Retiro Park - Madrid, Spain...and now for something a tad different... The Fallen Angel Monument (El Angel Caido) depicts Lucifer falling from heaven. The sculpture was first made a plaster model in Rome by Ri...See More
Photo: Fallen Angel Monument - Buen Retiro Park - Madrid, Spain...and now for something a tad different... The Fallen Angel Monument (El Angel Caido) depicts Lucifer falling from heaven. The sculpture was first made a plaster model in Rome by Ricardo Bellver (1845–1924) and then cast in bronze in Paris for the Exposition Universelle of 1878. Duke Fernan Núñez financed it. The inspiration for the work came from John Milton’s Paradise Lost: third and fourth stanzas of Canto I: “His pride Had cast him out of heaven with all his host Of rebel Angels back to him again. He waves around his eyes, and blasphemy are set out in the empyrean, reflecting in them the deepest pain, the greatest consternation, more fatal pride and steadfast hate...” Later it was decided to locate it in the Retiro Park and the architect Francisco Jareño (1818–1892) designed a pedestal of granite, bronze and stone. The whole monument was inaugurated in 1885. Its entire dimensions are: height, 7 metres; length, 10 m; width, 10 m. Sculpture’s height: 2.65 metres.

















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