The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is Canada's largest and principal
overseas war memorial. The memorial was designed by Toronto architect
and sculptor Walter Seymour Allward, who described it as a "sermon
against the futility of war". (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge)作者: ngsunyu 时间: 2017-6-8 05:29 本帖最后由 ngsunyu 于 2017-6-8 06:00 编辑
The Mourning Parents, one male and one female figure, are reclining on
either side of the western steps on the reverse side of the monument.
They represent the mourning mothers and fathers of the nation and are
likely patterned on the four statues by Michelangelo on the Medici
Tomb in Florence. Inscribed on the outside wall of the monument are
the names of the 11,285 Canadians killed in France whose final resting
place is unknown.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_National_Vimy_Memorial)
The figure of a cloaked young woman stands on top and at the centre of
the front wall and overlooks the Douai Plains. She has her head bowed,
her eyes cast down, and her chin resting in one hand. Below her at
ground level is a sarcophagus, bearing a Brodie helmet and a sword,
and draped in laurel branches. The saddened figure of Canada Bereft,
also known as Mother Canada, is a national personification of the
young nation of Canada, mourning her dead. Unlike the other statues on
the monument, stonemasons carved Canada Bereft from a single 30 tonne
block of stone. The statue is the largest single piece in the monument
and serves as a focal point.
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There is a group of figures at each end of the front wall, next to the
base of the steps. The Breaking of the Sword is located at the
southern corner of the front wall while Sympathy of the Canadians for
the Helpless is located at the northern corner.
In Breaking of the Sword, three young men are present, one of whom is
crouching and breaking his sword. This statue represents the defeat of
militarism and the general desire for peace. This grouping of figures
is the most overt image to pacifism in the monument, the breaking of a
sword being extremely uncommon in war memorials.
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The twin pylons rise to a height 30 metres above the memorial's stone
platform; one bears the maple leaf for Canada and the other the
fleur-de-lis for France, and both symbolize the unity and sacrifice of
the two countries. At the top of the pylons is a grouping of
figures known collectively as the Chorus. The most senior figures
represent Justice and Peace; Peace stands with a torch upraised,
making it the highest point in the monument.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_National_Vimy_Memorial)
The Mourning Parents, one male and one female figure, are reclining on
either side of the western steps on the reverse side of the monument.
They represent the mourning mothers and fathers of the nation and are
likely patterned on the four statues by Michelangelo on the Medici
Tomb in Florence. Inscribed on the outside wall of the monument are
the names of the 11,285 Canadians killed in France whose final resting
place is unknown.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_National_Vimy_Memorial)