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The Monument to Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Monumento a Isabel la Católica) is an instance of public art located in Madrid, Spain. A work by Manuel Oms [ es ] , the monument is a sculptural bronze ensemble consisting of an equestrian statue of Isabella of Castile , accompanied by Pedro González de Mendoza and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba .
The bronze sculptural group topping off the monument depicts a meeting of Columbus with Queen Isabella, seated on her throne. The upper part of the pedestal serves as a staircase on which Columbus stops to bow to the queen. [4] The sculptural group was also reportedly set to include a figure of Boabdil, but the idea just fell apart. [5]
Queen Isabella, also known as Queen Isabella (1451–1504), [1] is an outdoor sculpture of Isabella I of Castile, installed outside the Pan American Union Building of the Organization of American States at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. [2]
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Detail of Isabella's effigy. Isabella's effigy is in bronze and shows her head placed on a cushion and her hands joined in prayer. Her eyes are open and she has long, wavy hair. She is wearing expensive jewellery and fashionable clothing, including a diadem (a type of banded crown).
M. Monument to Agustina de Aragón (Zaragoza) Monument to Alfonso XII; Monument to Alfonso XIII (Madrid) Monument to Álvaro de Bazán (Madrid) Monument to Andrés Bello
Pleurants or weepers (the English meaning of pleurants) are anonymous sculpted figures representing mourners, used to decorate elaborate tomb monuments, mostly in the late Middle Ages in Western Europe. Typically they are relatively small, and a group were placed around the sides of a raised tomb monument, perhaps interspersed with armorial ...
The group took as their inspiration Queen Isabella of Spain, who had made Columbus' voyage to the New World possible. [3] Illinois Woman Suffrage Association founder Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite first suggested the idea of erecting a statue of Isabella. [1] The Queen Isabella Association originally incorporated in Chicago in 1889.