| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: London, England, United Kingdom | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1671-1677 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Wren, Christopher | en_US |
| dc.creator | Hooke, Robert | en_US |
| dc.date | 1671-1677 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-22T15:00:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-22T15:00:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1671-1677 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 185589 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 1899 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/92814 | |
| dc.description | Base, showing the relief on the west side (Charles II restoring the city after the Great Fire of 1666); As part of the rebuilding, it was decided to erect a permanent memorial of the Great Fire near the place where it began. Sir Christopher Wren, Surveyor General to King Charles II and his friend and colleague, Dr. Robert Hooke, provided a design for a colossal Doric column in the antique tradition. They drew up plans for a column containing a cantilevered stone staircase of 311 steps leading to a viewing platform. This was surmounted by a drum and a copper urn from which flames emerged, symbolising the Great Fire. The Monument, as it came to be called, is 61 metres high (202 feet) - the exact distance between it and the site in Pudding Lane where the fire began. It consists of a pedestal about 21 feet square and 40 feet high, with a plinth 28 feet square, and a fluted shaft 120 feet high and 15 feet in diameter; on the abacus is a balcony encompassing a moulded cylinder, which supports a flaming urn or vase of gilt bronze, symbolizing the Fire. The quantity of Portland stone contained in the column, as estimated by the architect, is 28,196 cubic feet. Source: City of London, The Monument [website]; http://www.themonument.info/ (accessed 6/13/2009) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | Portland stone; gilt bronze | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | allegorical | en_US |
| dc.subject | death or burial | en_US |
| dc.subject | historical | en_US |
| dc.subject | rulers and leaders | en_US |
| dc.subject | Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Great Fire, London, England, 1666 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Seventeenth century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Neoclassical | en_US |
| dc.title | Monument (The) | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Monument to the Great Fire of London | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-WC-M-B1 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | British | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | memorial column | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Christopher Wren (British architect, 1632-1723); Robert Hooke (British architect, 1635-1703) | en_US |
