Most Kew Gardens was built and developed in the 1800s, as the art of the Greeks and Romans was revered in particular. He was the only one who thinks that is large enough to place a water fountain English garden. The pond was built in 1845, while construction was going on in the Palm House.
The sculpture of Hercules was not added until 1853. It is naked in the Greek tradition and snatch with a big angry snake (Greek god Achelus) on a large square base (called the base). The whole is more than six meters high. Now, the statue of the water fountain garden is called "Hercules Fighting Achelus", but usually only as "Herc".
François Joseph BosioThe sculptor who has commissioned a heroic image in one of the sources of water to place the most visited gardens in the country was François Joseph Bosio (1768-1845), also known as Baron François Joseph Bosio. It was French, which seems to be somewhat confusing for the first water fountain garden of England. But here was the theme of Greek sculpture. England has always been a bit of an identity crisis had.
Bosiso was heavily influenced by Greek and Roman art and most of his works are preserved in nature and purpose of the Greek and Roman myths. Most of the time these big naked men and horses. Other sculptures sit in museums around the world include "hyacinth his train waiting to release the record" at the Art Institute of Chicago and "Cupid with a bow" in St. Peters.
However Bosio is best known for the statues of angels and horses to the Arc de Trioumphe of Carrosel. How can he won the contract for the Hercules statue in the fountain in the garden of the Palm House pond is not known, but won in 1824 Bosio fame by another Hercules and the statue of the snake named "Hercules and the Hydra Lernaen ". Besides his work it is not much known about Bosio.
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