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Monument To Christopher Columbus (Paseo De La Reforma, Mexico City)
The Monument to Christopher Columbus (Spanish: ) was a statue on a major traffic roundabout along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, first dedicated in 1877. The statue was removed on 10 October 2020 "for restoration purposes" two days before a planned protest. Later, the Mexico City government announced that the statue would not return to its location and would be replaced with '' Tlalli'', a sculpture intended to honor the nation's indigenous peoples. After multiple controversies related to the project, it was put on hold. Days after the cancellation, feminists installed the ''Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan'', an '' antimonumenta'' dedicated to the nation's women. However, the city government announced on 12 October 2021, that the statue of Columbus would be officially replaced with a replica of '' The Young Woman of Amajac'', a sculpture of an indigenous Huastec woman, which started several debates between which figure should replace Columbus. Following months ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cordier
Charles Henri Joseph Cordier (19 October 1827 - 30 May 1905) was a French sculptor of ethnographic subjects. He is known for his polychrome sculptures in the later realist phase of Orientalism. Early life and education Cordier was born in Cambrai, North of Paris in 1827. Career In 1847, a meeting with Seïd Enkess, a former black slave who had become a model, determined the course of his career. His first success was a bust in plaster of a Sudanese man "Saïd Abdullah of the Mayac, Kingdom of the Darfur" (Sudan), exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, the same year that slavery was abolished in all French colonies. It is now housed at The Walters Art Museum. In 1851, Queen Victoria bought a bronze of it at the Great Exhibition of London. In 1851 he created “Bust of an African Woman" renamed "African Venus" by Théophile Gautier. From 1851 to 1866, Cordier served as the official sculptor of Paris's National History Museum. During this time, he traveled abroad, and concei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
