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**This Is My Glasgow** @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · 6d

This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot

Of course, in Glasgow, there's another way of separating the two: A road cone fits neatly on the head of a statue, but not necessarily on a sculpture!

#glasgow #sculpture #statue

**This Is My Glasgow** @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · 6d

This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot

I've often said there's no statue of Mary Queen of Scots in Glasgow, which is true, but there is this sculpture of her on the gates of St Nicholas Gardens behind the Provand's Lordship on Castle Street. So, what makes it a sculpture rather than a statue? Officially, a sculpture is any three dimensional work of art, while a statue is an approximately life-sized and more or less realistic full figure representation of a person or animal.

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#glasgow #sculpture #statue

**This Is My Glasgow** @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 22

Feb 22

This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot

Decorative detail over an entrance to the Corona Bar on Pollokshaws Road on the Southside of Glasgow. The symbol in the middle is a play on the local place name Crossmyloof.

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Decorative detail over the entrance to a Glasgiw bar. In the middle is an open hand with a cross on it.

#glasgow #crossmyloof #coronabar

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**This Is My Glasgow** @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 16

Feb 16

This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot

Queen Mary's troops were defeated, and she fled south to England, where she was imprisoned and eventually executed by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth in 1587. The monument was erected to mark the 300th anniversary of her death.

#glasgow #sculpture #eagle

**This Is My Glasgow** @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot · Feb 16

Feb 16

This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot

One of the four rather wonderfully sculpted eagles on the Battlefield Monument in Glasgow. Designed by Alexander Skirving with sculptures by James Young, it was erected in 1887, and it commemorates the Battle of Langside between the army of Mary, Queen of Scots and that of the Earl of Moray, which took place nearby in 1568.

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