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Largo Chiado

Antonio Ribeiro "o Chiado"

Évora 1520? - Lisboa 1591
Portuguese poet
(Wikipedia)

António da Costa Motta (tio)
1925

Description

Statue of Chiado sitting.

Inscription(s)

a
ANTONIO RIBEIRO
CHIADO
poeta do seculo xvi
a vereacão de 1925

Signature

costa motta estatuario
j. alexandre soares arquitecto

Sculptor

António Augusto da Costa Motta (tio) [uncle] (Coimbra 1862 - Lisboa 1930), Portuguese sculptor (for his eponymous nephew, see 'sobrinho') (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Equipamentos.
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Arte Pública.
Espaço e Tempo, revelar LX, Arte pública/Escultura.
Sílvia Lucas Vieira de Almeida, Forma e conceito na escultura de oitocentos, Ph.D. Thesis Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012 (PDF on-line).

Locatie (N 38°42'37" - W 9°8'31") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ptli017; Photograph: 28 August 2017
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