Download Alfred Gilbert Statue Piccadilly Circus Images. Statue erected piccadilly circus, 1893; It was removed for safekeeping during the two world wars and during the rebuilding of the piccadilly subway station in the 1920s.

'Eros', Piccadilly Circus - Londres calling from storage.canalblog.com

The famous statue of eros in piccadilly circus is one of the symbols of london. Cast in aluminium (the first statue in the world, in fact) by sculptor sir alfred gilbert and positioned in 1893, the eros statue in. It was removed for safekeeping during the two world wars and during the rebuilding of the piccadilly subway station in the 1920s.

Piccadilly circus is a road junction and public space of london's west end in the city of westminster.

The triangle in the centre of the circus, is occupied by a memorial fountain to lord shaftesbury, by alfred gilbert, a.r.a., unveiled in 1893, and adorned with eight plaques of scenes from the philanthropist's life. The christmas decoration around the eros statue in piccadilly circus collapsed on monday evening. Like other works by alfred gilbert, the figure in a rather art nouveau idiom, sensitively modelled and with a nobility of face. Eros statue in picadilly circus.