A Cemetery's Amor Caritas Up Close
by Cora Wandel
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A Cemetery's Amor Caritas Up Close
Artist
Cora Wandel
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Photograph
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"Amor Caritas" is a sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and is at the grave site of Joseph E. Willard in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Willard was born into a powerful political family in 1865, and would become the United States' first Ambassador to Spain. His influential family founded the historic Willard Hotel, located a few blocks from the White House. The "Amor Caritas" that marks Willard's grave is a 40" high reproduction Saint-Gaudens made of his most famous work of the same name, an eight-foot tall bronze sculpture that won the Grand Priz of the Exhibition Universelle award in Paris in 1900. Saint-Gaudens made several reproduction of this famous work, most of which are in museums around the world with the exception of one that is in a secluded area of a grave yard in Washington.
This is an "up close" photograph of the sculpture and shows the upper body of the woman and the tablet she holds up with the words "Amor Caritas". A photograph of the complete sculpture, which shows the full body of the woman, precedes this one in my gallery and can be accessed by clicking on the above "PREV" (for "previous").
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May 17th, 2014
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