Eduardo Paolozzi Sculpture, Picardy Place, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

14372

Title

Eduardo Paolozzi sculpture, Picardy Place, Edinburgh

Description

A large sculpture of a foot in Picardy Place, Edinburgh. The sculpture sits in a paved area behind which we can see trees and beyond that tenement buildings.

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2008

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Eduardo Paulozzi's three piece sculpture, 'The Manuscript of Monte Cassino', is situated in front of St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral at the north end of Leith Street, Edinburgh. The work consists of three forms, an open palm, a section of limb and a foot and is said to be a statement on the destruction of war but also a message of peace, hope and regeneration. It was gifted to the city in 1991 by Sir Tom Farmer. The sculptor was born in 1924 at Crown Place, at the north end of Leith Walk.

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Architecture > Monuments > Sculptures

Homes > Residential buildings > Tenements

Places > Edinburgh areas > Broughton

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Plants > Trees > Trees

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