Miguel Bejarano Moreno (born 5 December 1967) is a Spanish sculptor, known for his Roman Catholic statues for the famous
procession
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History
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s of the
Semana Santa
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(Holy Week). He lives and works in
Seville
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Spain.
He started his artistic education in 1981 at the ''Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos'' (School of applied arts and artistic offices.) He specialized in sculpting under the auspices of the Sevillan sculptor Jesús Santos Calero. After that, he studied molding and casting with Francisco Fatuarte. Eventually he graduated in Applied arts in 1991. He perfected his modelling techniques in the workshop of the famous Sevillan sculptor Luis Alvarez Duarte. Since then he has worked independently in his own workshop.
Although he has made statues of secular subjects, he is known in particular for his religious works. He has worked for several processional brotherhoods (''Cofradías'') in
Andalusia
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e.g. in Seville,
Almería
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,
Cádiz
Cádiz (, , ) is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the Province of Cádiz, one of eight that make up the autonomous community of Andalusia.
Cádiz, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe, ...
,
Granada,
Huelva
Huelva (, ) is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Huelva in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is between two short rias though has an outlying spur including nature reserve on the Gulf of Cádiz coast. The ria ...
,
Jaén and
Málaga. He has also worked outside of Andalusia and is known especially for the statue of Our Lady of Hope in
Miami
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and Our Lady of
Warfhuizen
Warfhuizen (Gronings: ''Waarfhoezen'') is a village in province of Groningen, located in the northern part of the Netherlands. It is part of the municipality of Het Hogeland.
Warfhuizen consists of two man-made mounds, called ''wierden'', desi ...
in the
Netherlands
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His
statue of Our Lady of the Enclosed Garden in Warfhuizen,
the Netherlands
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has attracted a lot of attention since 2003. It has turned the
hermitage chapel of Our Lady into a
shrine
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by attracting thousands of parents worrying about their children. This all happened rather suddenly and without an apparent cause, like an apparition or a miracle. Therefore the many
pilgrim
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s themselves are sometimes (mockingly) referred to as the 'Miracle of Warfhuizen.'
See also
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Roman Catholic Marian art
Mary has been one of the major subjects of Western Art for centuries. There is an enormous quantity of Marian art in the Catholic Church, covering both devotional subjects such as the Virgin and Child and a range of narrative subjects from the ' ...
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Our Lady of Sorrows
Our Lady of Sorrows ( la, Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows ( la, Mater Dolorosa, link=no), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names ...
External links
Artist Website
1967 births
Living people
Spanish sculptors
Spanish male sculptors
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