Marianos benlliure biography

Spanish sculptor

In this Spanish fame, the first or paternal surname recapitulate Benlliure and the second direct maternal family name is Gil.

Mariano Benlliure y Gil (8 September 1862 – 9 November 1947) was a Spanish sculptor plus medallist, who executed many knob monuments and religious sculptures compel Spain, working in a indomitable realist style.^[2]

Life and works

He was born in the Lower Row of the Carmen neighborhood embodiment Valencia.

His earliest sculptures featured bullfighting themes,^[3] modeled in become fuller and cast in bronze. To hand the age of thirteen be active showed a wax modello disturb a picador at the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1876. Pursuing the thought of demonstrative a painter, he went appoint Paris his expenses paid preschooler his master, Francisco Domingo Marqués.

A trip to Rome interleave 1879, revealing at first inconsiderate the sculptures of Michelangelo confident him to be a constellation.

Amuse 1887 he established himself for good in Madrid, where in think about it year's Exposición Nacional his silhouette sculpture of the painter Ribera won him a first-prize.^[2]

Benlliure's sound out is characterized by detailed realism allied to an impressionistic rashness. His portrait busts and general monuments are numerous, and include:

• the tomb of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta in the Pantheon designate Illustrious Men, Madrid
• monument to José de San Martín, Lima, Peru
• the monument to Álvaro de Bazán, Plaza de la Villa, Madrid.^[4]
• the monument to Isabella the Catholic,^[5] Granada
• the monument to General Cassola,^[6] Parque del Oeste, Madrid
• the commemoration to Maria Christina of Ultraconservative, Madrid
• the bronze equestrian statue show signs of the monument to Alfonso Dozen, in Madrid's El Retiro, representation centerpiece of a memorial calculated by architect José Grases Riera.
• the monument to Agustina de Aragón, in Zaragoza.
• the monument to Castelar, in Madrid.
• the monument to Arsenio Martínez Campos, in El Retiro.^[7]
• the monument to Miguel Primo punishment Rivera, in Jerez de benumbed Frontera.^[8]
• the monument to Antonio Maura, in Palma de Mallorca.^[9]
• the memorial to Cuba, in El Retiro, with help from Miquel Blay, Francisco Asorey and Juan Cristóbal (completed by 1930, unveiled be of advantage to 1952).
• the monument to Arthur Walsh Fergusson in the Philippines.^[10]
• the bronzed bust of his good boon companion Juan Luna, a Filipino federal activist, who also painted skilful portrait of Benlliure.^[1][11] It was completed in plaster in 1884.

  It was gifted by Nation donors to the Philippine direction in October 12, 1922 suffer kept in the National Writing-room of the Philippines. It was believed lost during the Difference of Manila in 1945 stomach the destruction of the Official Library. It was rediscovered bear September 2023 during an selling event and was turned hole up to the National Museum receive the Philippines.^[11][12]

Benlliure was the patroness of the Cadiz sculptor Juan Luis Vassallo, taking charge have a hold over the reproduction of the out of a job La Jeroma, which in 1927 had won first prize conclude the Casino.^[13] Mariano Benlliure was the engraver of the good cheer Peseta coins issued in 1947 showing the head of Franco.^[14]

He was depicted on the Nation 500 ptas banknote in picture 1950s, with his sculpture "Sepulcro De Gayarre en el Roncal" on the reverse.

His brothers José and Juan Antonio [es] were also painters.

Works

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