Byron Monument
Located in the Zappeion Gardens, at the intersection of Queen Amalia and Queen Olga Streets, this sculptural composition represents Greece crowning Lord Byron.
It was completed after the death of its financier, benefactor and president of the Byron Association, Dimitrios Stefanovich Skylitsis, and its first sculptor, Henri Michel Antoine Chapu (1833-1891). The work was continued by the classical sculptor Jean Alexandre Joseph Falquier (1831-1900) and completed by the Greek sculptor Lazarus Sochos. The project was the focus of interest on the eve of the 1896 Olympic Games, when it was placed on the site where it still stands today, near the Zappeio Megaro.
On the statue, Greece, in the form of a half-naked woman, crowns Byron with a palm branch in gratitude for his services to her. Greece is depicted barefoot, with an oval face and a peculiar bandage in the form of a maphorion with folds reaching to the back, covering the hair. Byron, in turn, appears as a beardless young man, with a round face and a neat headdress. He wears elegant European clothes and shoes. On a round pedestal of monumental dimensions with relief decoration in the upper part there is an inscription:
INVENIT CHAPU/ SCULPSIT A. FALGUIERE
and below it the inscription ГРЕЦІЯ БАЙРОНУ
Located in the Zappeion Gardens, at the intersection of Queen Amalia and Queen Olga Streets, this sculptural composition represents Greece crowning Lord Byron.
It was completed after the death of its financier, benefactor and president of the Byron Association, Dimitrios Stefanovich Skylitsis, and its first sculptor, Henri Michel Antoine Chapu (1833-1891). The work was continued by the classical sculptor Jean Alexandre Joseph Falquier (1831-1900) and completed by the Greek sculptor Lazarus Sochos. The project was the focus of interest on the eve of the 1896 Olympic Games, when it was placed on the site where it still stands today, near the Zappeio Megaro.
On the statue, Greece, in the form of a half-naked woman, crowns Byron with a palm branch in gratitude for his services to her. Greece is depicted barefoot, with an oval face and a peculiar bandage in the form of a maphorion with folds reaching to the back, covering the hair. Byron, in turn, appears as a beardless young man, with a round face and a neat headdress. He wears elegant European clothes and shoes. On a round pedestal of monumental dimensions with relief decoration in the upper part there is an inscription:
INVENIT CHAPU/ SCULPSIT A. FALGUIERE
and below it the inscription ГРЕЦІЯ БАЙРОНУ
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