- Ricardo Bellver
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name = Ricardo Bellver
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birthdate = 1845
location = Madrid, Spain
deathdate = December 20, 1924
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nationality = Spanish
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training = sculptor
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works = "The Fallen Angel" ("El Ángel Caído")
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awards =Ricardo Bellver (
Madrid ,February 23 ,1845 — Ibidem,December 20 ,1924 ) was a Spanish sculptor.Biography
Bellver studied at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Art, and finished his sculptural education in
Rome as a grant holder.He became well-known because of his sculpture "The Fallen Angel" ("
El Ángel Caído ", 1877), a work inspired by a passage fromJohn Milton 's "Paradise Lost " "Catálogo de la Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes" ("Catalogue of the National Fine Arts Exhibition"), Madrid, 1878, p. 86-87. Mentioned by Carlos Reyero in book "Escultura, museo y estado en la España del siglo XIX: historia, significado y catálogo de la colección nacional de escultura moderna, 1856-1906",Alicante , 2002, ISBN 84-931949-6-4] , and which represents Lucifer falling from Heaven. The sculpture (see picture), of great dramatism and originallity, obtained the First Medal at the Spanish National Fine Arts Exhibition in 1878, and the same year was cast in bronze for the third Paris World's Fair. Later on, the Prado Museum donated it to the City of Madrid, and in 1885 it was installed in a square with the same name in the Retiro Park (the largest one in Madrid). For that purpose, architect Francisco Jareño (1818–1892) designed a pedestal of granite, bronze and stone. The success of this work made Bellver been accepted as academician. He was director of the Arts and Works School in Madrid.Other works of Bellver are in Saint Francis the Great Basilica, Saint Joseph Church, Pontifitial Church of Saint Michael, and Ministry of Public Works building in Madrid.
Works
*"Santa Inés Burial" (bas-relief).
*"The Fallen Angel", ("El Ángel Caído "), inParque del Buen Retiro , Madrid.
*"Saint Agatha death", bas-relief (1888).
*"San Expedito carving" (1916), in San Vicente Martir de Abando Church (Bilbao ).
*Juan Sebastián Elcano Statue (1888) in Mayor Hall Square in Guetaria (Vizcaya).
*Neogotical doors of Sevilla cathedral.
*"Saint Bartolomew" and "Saint Andrew", in Saint Francis the Great Basilica, Madrid.
*Monument to Donoso Cortés, San Isidro graveyard, Madrid.
*Cardinal Siliceo sepulchre.Notes
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