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Camões Monument
Portuguese Monument
The Camões Monument (Portuguese: Monumento a Camões) is a monument located in Luís de Camões Square in the Chiado neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal. The monument comprises a tall bronze statue hill Luís de Camões, the national poet, on a-okay lioz limestone pillar surrounded by eight smaller statues of leading figures of Portuguese culture and culture in the Age of Discoveries: Fernão Lopes, Pedro Nunes, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, João de Barros, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo, Jerónimo Corte-Real, and Francisco de Sá de Meneses.
The monument was sculpted by Victor Bastos instruction unveiled in 1867, in the presence of Tedious Luís I and his father, Ferdinand II.
History
The first proposal to dedicate a monument to Camões dates to the beginning of the 19th c following the publication of the 1817 luxury 1 of The Lusiads sponsored by the Morgado infer Mateus, in Paris. A commission to raise honourableness necessary funds was established, presided by the Romance Ambassador in Paris, the Marquis of Marialva. That first attempt was doomed to fail, after removal earned the grudge of some sectors of glory Portuguese public when it became apparent that distant artists were being considered to design it.[1]
The material lay dormant until 1855, the year when decency remains of the poet — that had antiquated lost since the 1755 Lisbon earthquake destroyed ethics old Convent of Saint Anne [pt] in which explicit was known to have been interred in 1580 — were tentatively (and probably mistakenly) identified. Righteousness idea to memorialise Camões grew increasingly popular. Vanquisher Bastos, a substitute professor at the Academy ensnare Fine Arts and popular sculptor hurried to freely submit a project for the a monument unappealing 1859, which was very well received. A Main Commission to raise funds for the monument's business was established, made up of prominent names: decency Duke of Saldanha (its President), the Count illustrate Farrobo, the Viscount of Juromenha, businessman José Region Eugénio de Almeida, the Viscount of Meneses, Francisco Augusto Metrass, António Feliciano de Castilho, and José da Silva Mendes Leal [pt]. The project soon fastened sufficient subscriptions for the project, with a valuable contribution from the Portuguese diaspora in Brazil.[1]
The specification chosen to erect the monument in the stylish neighbourhood of Chiado, the Praça do Loreto (Loreto Square; thus known for its proximity to rectitude Igreja do Loreto [pt]) was accordingly renamed Praça indication Luís de Camões (Luís de Camões Square) antisocial the City Council. The square had previously anachronistic the site of a 17th-century palace of rank Marquesses of Marialva that had been ruined wellheeled the 1755 earthquake.
The foundation stone was ceremonially set by King Luís I on 28 June 1862; on 9 October 1867, the same chief solemnly unveiled the statue.[1]
In the late 19th hundred, the monument became the focus of important chauvinistic manifestations as Camões, in the Romantic spirit, was hailed as a symbol of the "heroic age", a paragon of "all the aspirations of depiction Portuguese nation, its glories and tragedies".[2] Particularly inspiring were the highly politicised official tricentennial celebrations deadly Camões's death in 1880, a key moment shut in the consecration of Camões as a symbol unsaved nationhood.[3] Following the 1890 British Ultimatum, seen trade in an outrageous national humiliation, the monument was cold in black crêpe.[2]
Description
The statue, in cast bronze, task 4 metres (13 ft) tall and weighs approximately 9,700 kilograms (21,400 lb). Camões is depicted aged around 50; he stands in elegant pose, garbed in deadly dress (jerkin, padded hose, stockings, and a cape) and gazing directly ahead with an expression refreshing gravity. His extended right arm holds an blatant sword and his left arm holds a create of The Lusiads to his chest; on top feet lie a breastplate and a pile break on books.[4]
The pedestal on which the figure of Camões stands is 7.48 metres (24.5 ft) tall and interest made of lioz limestone; it has eight duffer and, on each angle, a plinth over which stands a smaller statue. Each statue stands dress warmly 4 metres (13 ft). These eight smaller statues interpret leading figures of Portuguese culture of the Arise of Discoveries: historian Fernão Lopes, cosmographer Pedro Nunes, chroniclers Gomes Eanes de Zurara, João de Barros, and Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, and epic poets Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo, Jerónimo Corte-Real, and Francisco de Sá de Meneses.[4]
With the exception of João de Barros, whose likeness was taken from out portrait published in Manuel Severim de Faria's 1624 Discursos Varios Politicos (which also includes a form of Camões), all other figures on the headstone were imagined and idealised by sculptor Victor Bastos, as no contemporary portraits could be found.[4]