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Mariano Benlliure

Spanish sculptor

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

Mariano Benlliure y Gil (8 September &#;&#; 9 November ) was a Spanish sculptor and medallist, who executed many public monuments and religious sculptures in Spain, working in a heroic realist style.[2]

Life and works

He was born in the Lower Street of the Carmen neighborhood of Valencia.

His earliest sculptures featured bullfighting themes,[3] modeled in wax and cast in bronze. At the age of thirteen he showed a wax modello of a picador at the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes, Pursuing the thought of becoming a painter, he went to Paris his expenses paid by his master, Francisco Domingo Marqués.

A trip to Rome in , revealing at first hand the sculptures of Michelangelo convinced him to be a sculptor. In he established himself permanently in Madrid, where in that year's Exposición Nacional his portrait sculpture of the painter Ribera won him a first-prize.[2]

Benlliure's style is characterized by detailed naturalism allied to an impressionistic spontaneity.

His portrait busts and public monuments are numerous, and include:

  • the tomb of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta in the Pantheon of 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 monument to Maria Christina of Bourbon, Madrid
  • the bronze equestrian statue of the monument to Alfonso XII, in Madrid's El Retiro, the centerpiece of a memorial designed 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 de Rivera, in Jerez de la Frontera.[8]
  • the monument to Antonio Maura, in Palma de Mallorca.[9]
  • the monument to Cuba, in El Retiro, with help from Miquel Blay, Francisco Asorey and Juan Cristóbal (completed by , unveiled in ).
  • the monument to Arthur Walsh Fergusson in the Philippines.[10]
  • the bronze bust of his good friend Juan Luna, a Filipino political activist, who also painted a portrait of Benlliure.[1][11] It was completed in plaster in It was gifted by Spanish donors to the Philippine government in October 12, and kept in the National Library of the Philippines.

    It was believed lost during the Battle of Manila in with the destruction of the National Library. It was rediscovered in September during an auction event and was turned over to the National Museum of the Philippines.[11][12]

Benlliure was the protector of the Cadiz sculptor Juan Luis Vassallo, taking charge of the reproduction of the work La Jeroma, which in had won first prize at the Casino.[13] Mariano Benlliure was the engraver of the first Peseta coins issued in showing the head of Franco.[14]

He was depicted on the Spanish ptas banknote in the s, 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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