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Belo Horizonte
Minas Gerais

Praça da Liberdade

Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães

Ouro Preto 1825 - Ouro Preto 1884
Brazilian poet and novelist
(Wikipedia)

Rodolfo Bernardelli
1901 (1914)

Belo Horizonte / Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães

Description

Bronze bust; a commemorative stone was added on the pedestal in 1925.

Inscription(s)

Bernardo Guimarães

A
Academia Mineira
de Letras
fez collocar
esta lapide
em commemoração
ao centenario
de
Bernardo Guimarães
15-8-925

Bernardo Guimarães

The Minas Academy
of Letters
has placed
this stone
in commemoration of
the centenary
of
Bernardo Guimarães
15-8-1925

On the pedestal:

1914

Signature

RBernardelli mcmi
fundação ... rg

Sculptor

José Maria Oscar Rodolpho Bernardelli y Thierry (Guadalajara, Mexico 1852 - Rio de Janeiro 1931), Brazilian sculptor from Mexican origin (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Rafael Campos, 'Este é o famoso quem?' Revista Encontro 166 (23 March 2015) (ISSUU).

Locatie (S 19°55'55" - W 43°56'17") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: brmg017; Photograph: 7 July 2017
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