Raul Chuecos Picón (Version 2)
- This monument is a tribute to the consecrated poet and writer Raúl Chuecos Picón from Mérida, Venezuela. The bust of is part of the heritage bequeathed by artist Manuel de la Fuente Muñoz which can be found throughout the city. Regulo Burelli Rivas considered…
Orgaje I
- Carved in mahogany wood, this artwork by Zulian artist Carlos Romero, “Orgage” (a made-up word with “organic” and “geometric”), uses rounded shapes as an expression of natural life and geometric patterns to portray the analytical side of human beings.
Nicho Para Niño Jesús
- Wood carved, sgraffito and gilded. The piece has a parallelepiped shape, on 4 carved legs. Four faces are glass, the front face is carved with stylized vegetables simulating a column. The lateral faces are sgraffito as well the back cover on its inner side…
Mural (Mateo Manaure) y Escultura La Dama Durmiente (Francisco Narvaez)
- Mural by Mateo Manaure with circles, rectangles and lines in red, black, blue, brown, and gray over a white and yellow background. The wooden sculpture by Francisco Narvaez is part of his "Nuevas Formas" series (New Forms) and it was created in the stylized…
Monumento de Tulio Gonzalo Salas
- Monument to Tulio Gonzalo Salas (1977) by the sculptor Manuel de la Fuente Muñoz, located in the El Rincón de los Poetas park in the city of Mérida, Venezuela. Photographic record made in Mérida, Venezuela by Marinela Araque Rivero and Samuel Leonardo Hurtado…
Monumento a Los Caídos de la Generación del 28
- Bronze monument to commemorate the Generation of 1928, a group of Venezuelan students who took to the streets to protest against Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez. Inscription: “To the Memory of the Disappeared Members of the Generation of 1928 - The Central University…
Monumento a José Antonio Páez (Plaza Páez, Barinas) (High Resolution)
- This bronze sculpture was created by an unknown artist as a replacement for the previous sculpture made of marble, by the Italian sculptor Emilio Gariboldi. The original bust was commissioned to Gariboldi in 1925 for a town square in Barinas City to commemorate…
Monumento a José Antonio Páez (Plaza Páez, Barinas)
- This bronze sculpture was created by an unknown artist as a replacement for the previous sculpture made of marble, by the Italian sculptor Emilio Gariboldi. The original bust was commissioned to Gariboldi in 1925 for a town square in Barinas City to commemorate…
Monumento a Cristóbal Rojas
- This monument to the painter Cristóbal Rojas (1858 - 1890) is at the front of the Cristóbal Rojas School of Plastic Arts, founded in 1959 at Barinas, the capital of the Barinas State in the western plains of Venezuela. The commemorative artwork consists of…