Monument To Antonio Maura
History and description
The monument was funded by popular subscription, and the design was awarded to Mariano Benlliure. The standing bronze statue of Antonio Maura, depicted in oratorical attitude, tops off the stone pedestal. Placed below Maura, an allegory of Truth made of white marble completes the ensemble. Truth is depicted pointing at a cartouche reading "antonio maura igualó con la vida el pensamiento" ("Antonio Maura equaled thought with [his] life"), adapted from a verse from Andrés Fernández de Andrada's Epístola moral a Fabio.
The monument was unveiled at its location in the Plaça del Mercat on 13 December 1929, on occasion of the 4th anniversary of the death of Maura. The statue was toppled and damaged on 11 November 2014 by the fall of a nearby ficus. After undergoing a restoration process, the statue returned to the Plaça del Mercat a year later.
References
- Citations
- ^ "Inauguración del monumento a Maura". La Vanguardia: 28. 14 December 1929.
- ^ "Anexo: Índice de monumentos de Mariano Benlliure". Mariano Benlliure. El dominio de la materia (PDF). Madrid & Valencia: Dirección General de Patrimonio Histórico de la Comunidad de Madrid; Consorcio de Museos de la Comunitat Valenciana. 2013. pp. 336–337. ISBN 978-84-451-3458-0.
- ^ "Inauguración del monumento a Maura". El Liberal. LI (18430). Madrid: 3. 14 December 1929. ISSN 2174-6648.
- ^ Manresa, Andreu (12 November 2014). "Un árbol derriba a Maura de su pedestal en Palma de Mallorca". El País.
- ^ Robles Muñoz 1995, p. 407; Robles Muñoz 2018, p. 119
- ^ Vallespir, Aitor F. (13 November 2015). "Antonio Maura vuelve al pedestal". Diario de Mallorca.
- Bibliography
- Robles Muñoz, Cristóbal (1995). Maura, un político liberal. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. ISBN 84-00-07485-8.
- Robles Muñoz, Cristóbal (2018). La Santa Sede y la II república. De la conciliación al conflicto (1931). Madrid: Asociación Cultural y Científica Iberoamericana. ISBN 978-84-17267-28-5.
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