Statues - Hither & Thither

Portugal

Lisboa
(Fr. de Santo António)
Lisboa (distrito)
Lisboa (região)

Avenida da Liberdade

Manuel Pinheiro Chagas

Lisboa 1842 - Lisboa 1895
Portuguese writer, journalist and politician.
(Wikipedia)

António da Costa Motta (tio)
1908

Description

The monument is made up of the bust of the writer Manuel Pinheiro Chagas, accompanied at its base by a figure from his most famous work, A Morgadinha de Valflor (1869).

Lisboa - Manuel Pinheiro Chagas

Inscription(s)

MANOEL PINHEIRO CHAGAS

1842 - 1895

Por subscripção promovide
pela "MALA DA EUROPA"
em Portugal e na Brazil

In front of the momument, in the pavement, is the text:

manoel pinheiro chagas
morgadinha
de
val-flor
mcmxxv

Sculptor

António Augusto da Costa Motta (tio) [uncle] (Coimbra 1862 - Lisboa 1930), Portuguese sculptor (for his eponymous nephew, see 'sobrinho') (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Equipamentos.
Espaço e Tempo, revelar LX, Arte pública/Escultura.
Sílvia Lucas Vieira de Almeida, Forma e conceito na escultura de oitocentos, Ph.D. Thesis Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012 (PDF on-line).

Location (N 38°43'0" - W 9°8'32")

Item Code: ptli025; Photograph: 28 August 2017
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