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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]
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 Nuragic civilization in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia produced a large number of small bronze statues, known as bronzetti (Nuragic bronze statuettes), starting from the 12th century BCE. [6] The 7th-8th century Sri Lankan Sinhalese bronze statue of Buddhist Tara, now in the British Museum, is an example of Sri Lankan bronze statues.
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.
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 ...
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The statue was sculpted by Rafael Atché and is said to depict Columbus pointing towards the New World with his right hand, while holding a scroll in the left. The statue points south-southeast (a more southerly direction than the adjacent Rambla Del Mar and almost a perfect extension of the direction of La Rambla, Barcelona ) and in effect is ...
Isabella's younger brother Alfonso was born two years later on 17 November 1453, demoting her position to third in line. [7] When her father died in 1454, her half-brother ascended to the throne as King Henry IV. Isabella and her brother Alfonso were left in King Henry's care. [8] Isabella, Alfonso, and their mother then moved to Arévalo. [5] [9]