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Avenido do Mar e das Comunidades Madeirenses 26
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Comércio e Indústria

Commerce and Industry

I.V. Perdigão
Bernardino Inácio filio (Gulpilhares - Villa Nova de Gaia)
1962

Description

Bronze sculpture of two persons:

Commerce, depicted by a male figure holding a ship in his left hand and a caduceous in his upright right hand.
Industry, depicted by a female figure holding a cog wheel in her right hand and an olive branch in her upright left hand.

Signature

i.v.perdigao | 1960
fundição de bronzes | bernardino Inacio filio | gulpilhares – v. n. gaia

Annotation

Building was opened 11 March 1962.

Sculptor

I.V.Perdigão, Portuguese sculptor.

Sources & Information

Arquipelagos, Image Bank.
Funchal Municipio, Funchal: Cidade com Arte (2010) (PDF on-line).
António Carlos Jardim Valente, As artes plásticas na Madeira (1910-1990), (Funchal, 1999), p. 104.
Madeira Quase Esquecida, O que nos contam as nossas estátuas… (Facebook).

Location (N 32°38'49" - W 16°54'20")

Item Code: ptma002; Photograph: 6 January 2014
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