4050 x 6075 px | 34,3 x 51,4 cm | 13,5 x 20,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
23. September 2009
Ort:
St Paul's cathedral, London, England
Weitere Informationen:
Height 183cm On loan from the Henry Moore Foundation. The idea of a piece for St Paul’s was put to Moore in 1983, when he was recovering from a serious illness. The commission did much to reinvigorate him: ’I can’t get this Madonna and Child out of my mind, ’ he said. ’It may be my last work, and I want to give it the feel of having a religious connotation'. Moore decided that travertine marble would be a more suitable material than bronze for the site chosen, in the north choir aisle of the cathedral, close to the main altar. The task of carving the large piece, which stands seven feet high, was entrusted to the stone carvers of the Henraux stoneyard in Querceta in the Carrara mountains of northern Italy, where in his younger days Moore himself had carved many works.
