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- This is a list of public art in Belgravia, a district in the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. The area is mainly composed of early 19th-century residential buildings, many of which now serve diplomatic uses. Several of the figures commemorated here were influential in the early development of Belgravia under the ownership of the Grosvenor family (later the Dukes of Westminster). Belgrave Square, which gives the locale its name, has a particularly high number of embassies; its public sculptures are therefore of a pronounced international character. (en)
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- Salviati (en)
- (and Mark Holloway) (en)
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- Statue of Christopher Columbus, London (en)
- Statue of José de San Martín, London (en)
- Hercules, Ormonde Place, London (en)
- Homage to Leonardo by Enzo Plazzotta (en)
- Statue of Henry the Navigator, London (en)
- Statue of Simón Bolívar in London (en)
- Statue of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, London (en)
- Statue of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster (en)
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- dbr:Chesham_Place
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- Belgrave Square Gardens (en)
- Halkin Arcade (en)
- Junction of Pimlico Road and Avery Farm Row (en)
- Ormonde Place (en)
- Outside Jeeves shop, Pont Street (en)
- Walden House, Pimlico Road (en)
- Orange Square, corner of Ebury Street and Pimlico Road (en)
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- Basevi was responsible for the design and construction of Belgrave Square in 1825–1840. (en)
- A small, bronze replica of the Farnese Hercules. Pedestal inscribed . (en)
- Based on Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man. Completed by Holloway, Plazzotta's studio assistant, after the elder sculptor's death in 1981. Funded by the American construction magnate John M. Harbert. (en)
- Given by the people of Spain in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage. His birth date is mistakenly given as 1446 on the pedestal. (en)
- A gift from the Duke of Westminster to mark the beginning of the third millennium. The inscription on the rim is taken from William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" : (en)
- A three-sided sculptural group of children playing, with a base depicting groups of animals in the round, all in Portland stone. The critic Kineton Parkes considered this to be Johnson's most important work. (en)
- A gift of the Anglo-Argentine community in Argentina, unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh. San Martín is depicted in general's uniform with his bicorne hat held casually in his right hand, while in his left he holds a trailing sword below the hilt. An inscription reads . (en)
- Based on the logo, depicting two gossiping Edwardian ladies out shopping, designed by Derrick Holmes for the dry cleaning firm Jeeves of Belgravia. Holmes also produced the maquette for the sculpture. (en)
- The composer is portrayed at the age of eight, when he stayed at 180 Ebury Street for the summer and autumn of 1764; he wrote his first two symphonies there. The statue was proposed to mark the bicentenary of Mozart's death in 1991. (en)
- Unveiled by James Callaghan, then Foreign Secretary, and the Venezuelan president Rafael Caldera. The statue of Bolívar in London is said to represent him as a maker of constitutions, in contrast to those in Madrid, Rome and Paris, which are equestrian. The quotation on the pedestal stresses his admiration for British institutions: (en)
- Commissioned by Sotheby's, this work won the Royal British Society of Sculptors' Silver Medal in 1972 for the most distinguished new sculpture in London. (en)
- An Italian Renaissance-style drinking fountain of Portland stone and granite, with mosaic panels. (en)
- The sculpture stands outside the extension to the German Embassy, with which it is contemporary. It was conceived as "a fragile 'call-sign' in the heart of the surging metropolis". Flora I, a work by the same artist, is in the garden of the German Chancellery in Berlin. (en)
- The developer of Belgravia is shown studying plans of the area, his foot resting on a milestone inscribed , a reference to his estate at Eaton Hall in Cheshire. On either side sit two talbots, the supporters from his coat of arms. An inscription on the pedestal reads a slight misquotation from John Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture . (en)
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- Hercules (en)
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- Fountainhead (en)
- (Leonardo da Vinci) (en)
- Great Flora L (en)
- The Jeeves Ladies (en)
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- This is a list of public art in Belgravia, a district in the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. The area is mainly composed of early 19th-century residential buildings, many of which now serve diplomatic uses. Several of the figures commemorated here were influential in the early development of Belgravia under the ownership of the Grosvenor family (later the Dukes of Westminster). Belgrave Square, which gives the locale its name, has a particularly high number of embassies; its public sculptures are therefore of a pronounced international character. (en)
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- List of public art in Belgravia (en)
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