Street art · London
Photo: Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0
Phoebus driving the Horses of the Sun
By Bertram Mackennal
Look up and you'll catch Phoebus mid-sunrise, arms flung wide as four bronze horses rear beneath him. It's Edwardian Beaux-Arts theatrics on a rooftop — pure sun-god drama you'd expect atop an opera house, not an office block.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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