Valeriano Salvatierra Barriales (14 April 1789 – 24 May 1836) was a Spanish sculptor.

Life

The son of Faustina Barriales and sculptor Mariano Salvatierra, he was born in Toledo and initially trained in his father's studio before entering the

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in 1807 and later spending time in Rome, where he met Canova and

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and gained praise for his own ''Achilles Pulling Out the Arrow'', which was awarded a prize in 1813 by the

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. On returning to Spain he was made a professor at Toledo Cathedral and later joined the faculty of the Academia de San Fernando. In 1819 he was made honorary court sculptor to

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, becoming his chief sculptor after Ramón Barba's death in 1831. From 1827 onwards he worked on the restoration of the sculptures in the Real Museo de Pinturas (now the

Museo del Prado The Prado Museum ( ; ), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to house one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the ...

) and created twelve allegorical sculptures for the Museo's facade. He died in Madrid in 1836. Rincón García, Wifredo; La escultura del siglo XIX; Cuadernos de arte español nº68; historia 16; Madrid, 1992

Selected works

* ''Crowning of the Puerta de Toledo'' (jointly with Ramón Barba) * Portrait of ''Isidoro Máiquez'' (Museo de la Real Academia de San Fernando). * Portrait of the painter ''José Aparicio''. * ''Grave monument of Cardinal don Luis de Borbón y Villabriga'' (Toledo Cathedral), sculpted in Rome in 1824, showing major influence from Canova and

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. * ''Grave monument of the condesa de Chinchón'' (Palacio de Boadilla del Monte, Madrid).

References

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