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Herrán Matorras' Virgin of El Panecillo (1976) on El Panecillo is a large replica of the sculpture. The Virgin of Quito (Spanish, La Virgen de Quito) — also known as the Virgin of the Apocalypse, Winged Virgin of Quito, Dancing Madonna, and Legarda's Virgin — is a wooden sculpture by the Quiteño artist Bernardo de Legarda (ca. 1700-1773) which has become the most representative example ...
The Virgin of El Panecillo (in Spanish: Virgen del Panecillo), also known as the Virgin of Quito from the sculpture of the same name, is a monument in Quito, Ecuador. It is located on the top of the hill of El Panecillo, a loaf-shaped hill in the heart of the city and serves as a backdrop to the historic center of Quito.
Virgen de Quito. In 1975, the Spanish artist Agustín de la Herrán Matorras was commissioned by the religious order of the Oblates to build a 45-meter-tall stone monument of a madonna which was assembled on a high pedestal on the top of Panecillo. [1] Called "Virgin of El Panecillo", it is made of seven thousand pieces of aluminium.
The Quito School (Escuela Quiteña) is a Latin American colonial artistic tradition that constitutes essentially the whole of the professional artistic output developed in the territory of the Royal Audience of Quito – from Pasto and Popayán in the north to Piura and Cajamarca in the south – during the Spanish colonial period (1542–1824 ...
The decoration of the half dome of the La Iglesia de El Sagrario, Quito. The high altar reredos of the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Merced and the enclosure under the choir of La Iglesia de Santo Domingo in quito; Legarda created a series of Immaculate Conceptions ("Virgins of Quito") and Assumptions.
Caspicara was born into an Indigenous family in Quito in about 1723. Among his predecessors was Lucas Barrionuevo (d. 1594) and among his mentors was Bernardo de Legarda (ca. 1700–1773), whom he is sometimes seen as succeeding.
The equestrian sculpture is insofar a miracle which stands for Fernkorn's craftsmanship as a sculptor, as only the two back legs of the horse have a connection with the pedestal, it is only the second oldest in the world of this kind, after the Monument to Nicholas I in Saint Petersburg, outdoing the achievement of Tacca's equestrian sculpture ...
Greek Madonna (sculpture) H. ... Monumento a la Virgen de la Paz; Mother of All Asia – Tower of Peace; ... Virgin of Quito; W. Windsor, Ontario weeping statue ...