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Belo Horizonte
Minas Gerais

Praça Hugo Werneck (west)

Octaviano Ribeiro de Almeida

Diamantina, MG, 1886 - 1940
Physician and pharmacologist, leader of the surgery service at the Military Police

João Scuotto
date?

Belo Horizonte / Octaviano Ribeiro de Almeida

Description

Bronze bust.

Inscription(s)

Plaque disappeared

Signature

J. Scuotto.

Artist

João Scuotto (São Paulo 1902 - Belo Horizonte 1982), Brazilian sculptor (Biography).

Sources & Information

Rafael Campos, 'Este é o famoso quem?' Revista Encontro 166 (23 March 2015) (ISSUU).
Caio, Claudia, Fernanda, Gabriela, Iara, Igor, Maiara, Marinna e Thiago (Blogspot), Monumentos da Região Central de Belo Horizonte (identify the bust as of Antônio Aleixo [Diamantina, MG, 1886 - 1940] Physician and pharmacologist, leader of the surgery service at the Military Police; see brmg074).
UAI, Bustos de personagens da história de BH e Minas ficam sem identificação (refers to busts of Octaviano de Almeida and Antônio Aleixo).

Location (S 19°55'25" - W 43°55'38") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: brmg073; Photograph: 13 July 2017
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