Sunday photoblogging: Liverpool Cenotaph

by Chris Bertram on March 4, 2018

A double offering this week. There’s a lot that’s extraordinary about the buildings and monuments in and around Liverpool’s St George’s Plateau, but these modernist bronzes on the sides of the Liverpool Cenotaph by Herbert Tyson Smith are pretty arresting.

Liverpool Cenotaph

Liverpool Cenotaph

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Alan White 03.04.18 at 3:13 pm

These are wonderful–thank you!

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William Berry 03.04.18 at 5:22 pm

” . . . modernist bronzes”: Done in the style of Assyrian frieze. Everything old is new again.

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JRLRC 03.04.18 at 5:50 pm

Great details!

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MisterMr 03.04.18 at 6:57 pm

Looks strangely soviet-style to me!

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Donald A. Coffin 03.04.18 at 9:40 pm

Beautiful…and heart-wrenching. A French memorial here:
http://wordsmusic-doc.blogspot.com/2018/03/copycat-photoblogging-war-memorial.html

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