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Victor de Pol (1865 - 1925) was an Italian
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1865 births 1925 deaths Argentine sculptors Argentine male artists Male sculptors Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery Sculptors from Venice Italian emigrants to Argentina 20th-century sculptors 19th-century sculptors {{Argentina-sculptor-stub
Victor de Pol (1865 - 1925) was an Italian sculptor
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
and medallist most active in Buenos Aires
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, Argentina
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.
Born in Venice, de Pol was a student of Giulio Monteverde. (Monteverde was also the mentor to Argentine sculptor Lola Mora
Dolores Candelaria Mora Vega (November 17, 1866 – June 7, 1936) known professionally as Lola Mora, was a sculptor born in San Miguel de Tucumán, in Argentina. She is known today as a rebel and a pioneer of women in her artistic field.
Early ...
.) He immigrated to Argentina at the age of 22 and participated in the development of La Plata, designing Beaux-Arts-style sculpture for major public buildings. At least judging from his commissions related to President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (; born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín Sarmiento y Albarracín; 15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the second President of Argentina. His writing s ...
, de Pol was socially well-connected.
From 1890 through 1895 de Pol returned to Europe. His return to Argentina brought the major work of his career, the 8-meter, 20-ton heroic quadriga
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The four- ...
on the Argentine National Congress building, 1906.
He is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery
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in the family vault of Aristóbulo del Valle, the great uncle of de Pol's wife Asimilda del Valle.
Work
* bust of PresidentSarmiento Sarmiento may refer to:
Places Argentina
*Sarmiento Department, San Juan, a subdivision of the San Juan Province
*Sarmiento Department, Santiago del Estero, a subdivision of the Santiago del Estero Province
*Sarmiento Department, Chubut, a subdivi ...
, at the Sarmiento Museum, circa 1887Buenos Aires: a cultural and literary history By Jason Wilson, pg. 194
* sculpture of a condor atop a pylon at the tomb of Sarmiento, designed by Sarmiento himself, at La Recoleta Cemetery
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, 1888
* twelve facade busts of scientists, and the two sabertoothed Smilodon
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flanking the entrance to the La Plata Museum
The La Plata Museum ( es, Museo de la Plata) is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina. It is part of the (Natural Sciences School) of the UNLP ( National University of La Plata).
The building, long, today houses 3 million fossils an ...
, 1888
* quadriga
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The four- ...
at the Argentine National Congress, circa 1906
* tomb of Archbishop Federico León Aneiros, Archbishop of Buenos Aires
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, inside the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
Sources
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1865 births 1925 deaths Argentine sculptors Argentine male artists Male sculptors Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery Sculptors from Venice Italian emigrants to Argentina 20th-century sculptors 19th-century sculptors {{Argentina-sculptor-stub