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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria
Parque Romano
Nacimiento de Gran Canaria
Birth of Gran Canaria
Abraham Cárdenes Guerra
c. 1950 (1952)
 
Description
Limestone sculpture of a naked woman sitting in a shell, surrounded by tritons and fish. The depictions shows similarities with the birth of Venus.
Annotation
The limestone sculpture is a state of great deterioration. A bronze copy is in the Parque Dorama
(see here)
.
Sculptor
Abraham Cárdenes Guerra (Tejeda 1907 - 1971), Spanish-Canarian sculptor.
Sources & Information
Catálogo de bienes histórico-artístico del Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (
PDF on-line
).
Esculturas en Gran Canaria,
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2 P.
La Estrella que nos guia,
Esculturas de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (1 P.)
.
Juan Álvarez Lasso,
Bustos, esculturas y monumentos en la ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Primera parte
(2011)
(on-line)
, p. 530-532.
Tags
Town:
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Comunidad autónoma:
Gran Canaria
Country:
Spain
Cárdenes Guerra, Abraham
Gran Canaria (allegory)
Triton
Venus
Woman (nude)
Locatie (N 28°7'29" - W 15°25'40")
(Satellite view:
Google Maps
)
Item Code:
esca167
; Photograph: 7 January 2015
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