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Quatro figuras mitológicas femininas

Four Female Mythological Figures

Salvador Barata Feyo & António da Costa
1940

Lisboa / Quatro figuras mitológicas femininas

Description

Set if four sculptural fountains, fitting the monument for Afonso de Albuquerque and made in 1940 by Salvador Barata Feyo, with the collaboration of António Costa. Each sculpture shows a mythological female figures:

Lisboa - Quatro figuras mitológicas femininas
South-east: Amphitrite, accompanied by a seahorse
North-east: Venus or Aphrodite, accompanied by her son Aeneas.
North-west: Diana, with a dagger and accompanied by a deer.
South-west: A Dionysian woman with grapes, accomanied by a goat

Sculptors

Salvador Carvão da Silva d'Eça Barata Feyo (Moçâmedes 1899 - 1990) Portuguese sculptor (Wikipedia).
António da Costa (1899 - 1970), Portuguese sculptor.

Sources & Information

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Equipamentos.
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Arte Pública.

Location (N 38°41'48" - W 9°12'1")

Item Code: ptli053; Photograph: 30 August 2017
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