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Ricardo Bellver
Ricardo Bellver (Madrid, 23 February 1845 — Madrid, 20 December 1924) was a Spanish Sculpture, sculptor. Biography Bellver studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, and finished his sculptural education in Rome as a grant holder. He became well known because of his sculpture ''The Fallen Angel'' (''El Ángel Caído (sculputure), El Ángel Caído'', 1877), a work inspired by a passage from John Milton's ''Paradise Lost'',''Catálogo de la Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes'' ("''Catalogue of the National Fine Arts Exhibition''"), Madrid, 1878, p. 86-87. Mentioned by Carlos Reyero in book ''Escultura, museo y estado en la España del siglo XIX: historia, significado y catálogo de la colección nacional de escultura moderna, 1856-1906'', Alicante, 2002, and which represents Lucifer falling from Heaven. The sculpture (see picture), of great dramatism and originality, was awarded the first place medal at the Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Ángel Caído
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Minister Of Public Works (Spain)
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA) ( es, Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana), traditionally known as the Ministry of Development (MFOM), is the Spanish government departments, department of the Government of Spain responsible for preparing and implementing the government policy on land, air and maritime transport infrastructure and the control, planning and regulation of the transport services on this areas. It is also responsible for guaranteeing access to housing; Urban planning, urban, soil and architecture policies; planning and controlling the postal and telegraph services, directing the services related to astronomy, geodesy, geophysics and Cartography, mapping, and planning and programing the government investments on infrastructure and services related to this scope. The Ministry's headquarters are in the Nuevos Ministerios, New Ministries government complex. MITMA is headed by the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Spanish Sculptors
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1924 Deaths
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1845 Births
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People From Madrid
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Bilbao
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Fonte Do Anjo Caído
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Fuente Del Ángel Caído
The ''Fuente del Ángel Caído'' (''Fountain of the Fallen Angel'' or ''Monument of the Fallen Angel'') is a fountain located in the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain. The statue that crowns the monument is the masterpiece of Ricardo Bellver who realized it in plaster in 1877 while a 3rd year pensioner in Rome, inspired by verses from ''Paradise Lost'' of John Milton (Canto I). He submitted it to the 1877 edition of the ''National Exhibition of Fine Arts (Spain), Exposiciones Nacionales de Bellas Artes'' where it received the first prize. The state acquired the work and presented it to the 1878 Exposition Universelle (1878), Exposition Universelle. Since only works in marble and bronze were accepted, the statue was cast in bronze at this occasion and the plaster original destroyed. The statue returned to Spain in what was then the ''Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura'' (also known as the ''Museo de la Trinidad'', now part of the Museo del Prado). The director of the museum, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
