Madrid mira a sus estatuas
('Madrid Looks at its Statues')
1992

Madrid mira a sus estatuas
('Madrid Looks at its Statues')

Author: Antonio Ruiz Barbarin y Antxón Hernández. Prólogo Miguel Fisac.
Volume: 1  
Pages: 220 pp.
Publisher: Promoción M. Edit.
ISBN: 84-604-3583-0.

Pointing permanently, statuary, the place where a remarkable event happened, the memory of a character, the justified decoration of a public space, is the remotest tradition. It reads in the Bible (Genesis 28-18) that in memory of a dream 'Jacob rose early, took the stone he had used as a pillow, put it up as a pillar and (the anointed) poured oil above.' Madrid, with varying degrees of success, has been faithful to this beautiful custom and statues testify in very different ways, creating in its urban setting a peculiar physiognomy, beautiful as providing the equestrian statue of Felipe IV at the Plaza de Oriente, exceptionally rare example of solidarity between different artists, which could be said, that this is the true monument to consistency art unit, away from egocentric pretentious and egoists.

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