Where is this statue?
Feb 4, 2006 | 8:07 am
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Where is this statue?
My husband got this in an e-mail and we were intrigued- looks like there might be an interesting story behind it. (And, if it's near any place we travel, we'd like to visit it!) We uploaded the shot to our Web site, hoping one of the well-traveled people on this Board would recognize it. Here's the link.
http://www.reginaron.com/tripped-up.jpg
http://www.reginaron.com/tripped-up.jpg
Feb 4, 2006 | 11:24 am
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Originally Posted by Gardyloo
Brussels.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...lr%3D%26sa%3DG
http://www.loughrigg.org
http://www.loughrigg.org/bxlLandmarks/
A sculpture of a man being tripped up. Next to the Brussels-Charleroi Canal at Sainctelette-plein.
Feb 4, 2006 | 5:16 pm
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Originally Posted by mcrt
I always get a kick out of statues with a sense of humor. On York Minster there is a gargoyle picking his nose. On the roof of Notre Dame in Paris there is a statue trying to keep its balance.
Malcolm Harlow once started carving a gargoyle based on a woman he was dating, until he discovered she was two-timing him. She ended up with a skull face and medusa hair.
Feb 4, 2006 | 5:34 pm
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That doesn't look like a statue with a sense of humour. It looks like a statue honoring the partisant army during WWII. In many european cities these guerillas took to the sewers and attempted to undermine the occupying forces from there. This looks like a sculptors representation of that given the cape and the traditionally german cape around the uniform. Just my 2 cents...could be wrong.
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Originally Posted by Gargoyle
We did a lot of that on the Washington Cathedral. One carver in particular, John Guarante, caricatured a number of the other carvers and cathedral workers. He did one of Vincent Palumbo (who at the time was a young carver, but later was the master carver), squatting on the side of a buttress, carving but looking over his shoulder, whistling at passing girls. (4th image down on that page) On the other side of the buttress was the cathedral dean, looking agast at Vincent's behavior.
Malcolm Harlow once started carving a gargoyle based on a woman he was dating, until he discovered she was two-timing him. She ended up with a skull face and medusa hair.
Malcolm Harlow once started carving a gargoyle based on a woman he was dating, until he discovered she was two-timing him. She ended up with a skull face and medusa hair.
Feb 4, 2006 | 7:29 pm
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Originally Posted by Wingman32
That doesn't look like a statue with a sense of humour. It looks like a statue honoring the partisant army during WWII. -W
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Feb 5, 2006 | 11:49 am
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Originally Posted by Wingman32
That doesn't look like a statue with a sense of humour. It looks like a statue honoring the partisant army during WWII.
The Vaartkapoen (D) - "The Canal Guy" - on the Sainctelette
square in Brussels; clearly illustrates the attitude towards
authority of the true Molenbekenaar. A young rascal; whose head
appears from a drain, grabs a helmeted "ajoen" (police officer)
by the ankle before disappearing down the sewers that discharge
into the canal. This original bronze statue by Tom Frantzen
was inaugurated together with the Boulevard Leopold II in October
1991: The statue was stolen a few weeks after the opening of
this axis that connects the Place Rogier to the Basilique in
Koekelberg. To prevent any repetition in the future, the artist
this time did not spare the nuts and bolts to keep his work
securely in place.
http://www.stanleygibbons.com/newiss...=1453/03_jul2b
So, it doesn't seem to be related to WWII and the partisan army.