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Issue 59 South Liverpool May 2012
The monthly independent advertiser 20,000 copies 17,500 into Homes 2,500 into Businesses in Woolton, Gateacre, Childwall, L18, L17, L15, NEW AREA Woolton Hill, Woolton Park and Calderstones
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EROS MODEL by Stephen Guy
The 16-year-old boy stood on one leg, naked apart from a piece of drapery to protect his modesty. It was not perhaps the type of work London-born Angelo Colarossi anticipated when he became assistant to the Victorian sculptor Sir Alfred Gilbert at his studio. However, Angelo’s father was a successful artists’ model so it was perhaps not such a daunting task for the self-conscious teenager. Angelo, who was just 5 ft tall, was posing for a very important artwork which is today known
throughout the world. As he held his demanding pose for up to an hour at a time, Angelo little knew how he would be immortalised in metal. Gilbert was portraying him as Anteros for a memorial dedicated to social reformer Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. The finished work would be mistakenly known as the Eros Fountain. Anteros was the Greek god of requited love and his brother Eros the god of one-way love. Lord Shaftesbury’s reforms included ending the cruel practice of sending
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small boys up chimneys to sweep away the soot. He also pioneered much-needed factory reforms and improved conditions in coal mines. A leading evangelical Anglican, his acts of philanthropy included providing lodging houses for the poor. After long deliberations,
although the statue is eight feet high weighing nearly three hundredweights. The 1892 statue was the first in the world to be cast in aluminium and is set on a bronze fountain in London’s Piccadilly Circus. Forty years later a replica was unveiled in Sefton Park although the Eros statue is a modern replica (pictured). The 1932 version is in the care of National Museums Liverpool following the recent restoration of the fouAngelo Colarossi senior modelled for Lord Leighton’s Athlete Wrestling a Python, a version of which is in the Walker Art Gallery collections. Father and son both posed for Leighton’s huge painting And the Sea gave up the Dead which were in It (Tate collection). Young Angelo married and later worked in an aircraft factory. He died in 1949.
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