I like many people in Leeds, Yorkshire pass this work of art quite often but I guess like many I never really appreciated it till the day I took this photograph.
This is Atlas supporting a globe above the entrance to a building in the financial district of Leeds city centre. If he was not built into to stone structure of the building I think that he really belongs in a museum. He is perched above the entrance to Atlas House, King street, Leeds. I think that at one time this building was a bank, however today it is home to Atlas Pizzaria.
Atlas in Greek mythology was a titan who supported the heavens from the mountains now called the Atlas mountains he was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia. Zeus condemned Atlas to hold up the sky for eternity and here in Leeds he continues to do so.
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That is the classiest looking pizzaria I've ever seen!
ReplyDeleteHa. What Lois said.
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