Barcelona – Equestrian statues https://equestrianstatue.org by Kees van Tilburg Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:57:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.11 Athlets https://equestrianstatue.org/athlet-2/ Wed, 18 May 2016 15:23:29 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/athlet-2/ The Olympic Stadium of Barcelona was ready in 1929 was meant to host the People’s Olympiad in 1936, a protest event against the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but the event had to be cancelled due the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.  Photographer unknown

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]]> Barcelona https://equestrianstatue.org/barcelona/ Wed, 18 May 2016 15:23:28 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/barcelona/ Most of the sculptures on the Plaça de Catalunya were created between 1927 and 1929 for the Barcelona International Exposition of 1929. Among all the sculptures we find four allegories representing the four Catalan provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. Frederic Marés was a sculptor who had great recognition among the institutions of the time. He … Continue reading "Barcelona"

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]]> Saint George https://equestrianstatue.org/george-saint-17/ Wed, 18 May 2016 15:23:08 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/george-saint-17/ This is an extraordinary sculpture of Saint George. Not as usual as the hero fighting the dragon, but as a human being, exhausted after the fight.

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]]> Berenguer lll, Ramon https://equestrianstatue.org/berenguer-lll-ramon/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/?p=1128 The post Berenguer lll, Ramon appeared first on Equestrian statues.

]]> Prim y Prats, Juan https://equestrianstatue.org/prim-y-prats-juan/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/?p=1831 A statue of Prim y Prats by Lluis Puiggener (1891) stands in his birthplace of Reus. The statue by the same sculptor (1887) in Barcelona was destroyed during the Civil War (1936–1939). Frederic Marès made a new copy in 1948. 

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]]> Bolivar, Simon https://equestrianstatue.org/bolivar-simon-33/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/?p=2172 See original Photographer unknown

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