Shevchenko Monument (Ottawa)


On The Shevchenko Monument is a bronze and granite monument of Taras Shevchenko, created by Leo Mol, that was unveiled on 26 June 2011 in Ottawa, Ontario, CAnada.
The composition of the monument includes four items: Taras Shevchenko, and three bas-relief figures complementing the composition. The central monument, sitting on a granite base approximately high, holds a young version of a standing Taras Shevchenko. Dressed in a long coat, the fashion at that time, he holds a palette and three paintbrushes and looks out into the distance. The figure is high and weighs.
Three shorter bases hold artistic creations from his poetry. One of the bas-relief figures, standing and weighing, represents Haydamaky an epic poem of Shevchenko's about the Cossack paramilitary bands that rose up against the szlachta in right-bank Ukraine in the 18th-century.
The next, Kateryna with child, recalls his early ballad about a Ukrainian girl seduced then abandoned by a Russian - symbolic of the tsarist imposition of serfdom in Ukraine and refers to Shevchenko's painting Kateryna.
The last, Banduryst, referring to the Kobzar and Bandura, a traditional Ukrainian stringed musical instrument shaped like a lute.
Nearly of Stanstead grey granite from Quebec, was used to create the bases for the monument.
The monument is located the grounds of the Saint John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Shrine, 952 Green Valley Crescent, Ottawa, Ontario.