Description
The statue is a replica of the one erected in Genoa, Italy.
Inscription(s)
On the part visible on the photo is a map of the Americas, with beneath it a castilla y a leon. in the lower part of the pedestal a | la heroica | cartagena | j.b. mainero y t.
Annotation
An Italian Inmigrant, Juan Bautista Mainero y Trucco, bussinessman, marble importer, urbanist, real estate broker, donated the staue at the end of the 19th century.
This monument on postcards
Sculptor
- Lorenzo Bartolini (Vernio 1777 - Firenze/Florence 1850),
Italian sculptor
(Wikipedia).
Sources & Information
- Photo (overview): ho vista nina volare, 10 January 2007. See ho vista nina volare's photostream on Flickr.
- Photo (detail): Ariel Vinizki, 3 December 2006. See Vinizki26's photostream on Flickr.
- See also Francois Arconti's website.
- Luis Fernando Molina L., "El viejo Mainero": Actividad empresarial de Juan Bautista Mainero y Trucco en Bolívar, Chocó, Antioquia y Cundinamarca 1860–1918. Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico XXV, 17 (1988).
Tags
Locatie (N 10°25'19" - W 75°33'0") (Satellite view: Google Maps)
Item Code: co004;
Added: 1 January 2000
/ Updated: 28 January 2007
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