Watch : Sciortino's unbuilt monument revisited in new documentary

Abstract

It was conceived as a memorial to the unknown soldier and intended to be built on the outskirts of London. An ambitious war memorial conceived in the aftermath of World War I, but never realised, has been brought back into public discourse through a new immersive video-documentary and scholarly publication by Conrad Thake that reassess the artistic vision of Antonio Sciortino. While Sciortino is widely recognised as one of Malta's most important sculptors of public monuments, this renewed focus on his unrealised Temple of the British Empire to the Unknown Soldier reveals a lesser-known yet crucial dimension of his legacy.