3778 x 2826 px | 32 x 23,9 cm | 12,6 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
20. August 2012
Ort:
Robert Burns Memorial Garden, Alloway. Ayrshire. Scotland. United Kingdom.
Weitere Informationen:
On 24th March 1814, Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck issued an invitation to a preliminary meeting at Ayr to discuss a memorial project. Only one person answered this invitation, and that was the Rev. Hamilton Paul who had played a leading role in the Alloway anniversary dinners from 1801 onwards. These two gentlemen, however, soon overcame the apathy of their fellow citizens and eventually raised £3, 300 - a relatively large sum for those days. The money was used for the erection of a national monument on the bank of the River Doon at Alloway, near the poet's birthplace. The monument was designed by the noted Edinburgh architect, Thomas Hamilton, who later designed the Burns monument on Calton Hill in his native city. Hamilton was steeped in the classical tradition, as these two monuments testify. The Alloway monument consists of a three sided rustic basement supporting a circular Corinthian peristyle, surmounted by a cupola. The massive substructure was carefully sited so that each side faced one of the three divisions of Ayrshire, namely Carrick, Cunninghame and Kyle. The interior of the basement formed a circular chamber, intended as a repository of relics of the poet. The superstructure consists of nine columns, representing the nine muses, and the frieze of their entablature is richly decorated with chaplets of laurel. The design of the central column was copied from the temple of Jupiter Stater in the Campo Vaccini in Rome.
