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Tristão Vaz Teixeira

c. 1395 - Silves 1480
Portuguese navigator and explorer who, together with João Gonçalves Zarco and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, was the official discoverer and one of the first settlers of the archipelago of Madeira (1419-1420).
(Wikipedia)

Pedro dos Anjos Teixeira
1971

Description

Bronze statue.

Inscription(s)

TRISTÃO VAZ TEIXEIRA

"…para que elle
a mantenha por mym
em justica
e em direito…"
anno do Senhor de 1440
O Iffante dom hamrrique "…Lest he
keep it for me
in justice
and right…"
In the year of our Lord 1440
Infante Dom Henrique

Signature

Anjos Teixeira 1971

Sculptor

Pedro Augusto Franco dos Anjos Teixeira (filho) [son] (Paris 1908 - Sintra 1997), Portuguese sculptor, son of Artur Gaspar dos Anjos Teixeira (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Arquipelagos, Image Bank.
Madeira Quase Esquecida, O que nos contam as nossas estátuas… (Facebook).
Padre António Vieira, Estátuas Madeirenses: Fotos e apontamentos sobre estátuas madeirenses (Blogspot).
Igogo, Monumentos no Funchal

Locatie (N 32°43'6" - W 16°45'56") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ptma077; Photograph: 9 January 2014
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