MY MONUMENTS

As I became famous, people from different countries have built statues and sculptures, and have painted very nice pictures of me. I found some and I have them in my photo-gallery…

PICTURES: RAFAEL PINEDA
SIMON BOLIVAR’S MONUMENTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
200TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOLIVAR’S BIRTH
CENTRO SIMON BOLIVAR C.A. CARACAS

"SIMON BOLIVAR" by Pietro Tenerani
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Material: Bronze

Height: 2.6 m

Modelled in Rome and cast at the Munich Foundry, 1844.

Location: Plaza de Bolívar, Bogotá, dedicated 20/07/1846

First pedestrian statue of Bolívar, it was commissioned by José Ignacio París, who donated it to the Colombian Government.

"MONUMENT TO SIMON BOLIVAR" by Adamo Tadolini

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Material: Bronze
Height: 4.17 m
Replica of the Lima original 1859 without the Guaccarini reliefs.
Royal Munich Foundry, 1873
E. ackermann: pedestal in black jasper

Plaza de Bolivar, Caracas, unveiled 07/11/1874

"SIMON BOLIVAR" by José María Espinosa
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Material: Oil on canvas
Size: 2.30 x 1.48 m
Location: Bogotá, 1864
Diego Bosque García Collection, Caracas

"MONUME NT TO SIMON BOLIVAR" by Emmanuel Fremiet (France, 1824-1910)
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Material: Bronze
Barbedoemme Foudry, Paris, ca.1900
Dedicated at Parque de la Independencia, Bogotá, on 25/10/1910, and replaced at the entrance of Autopista Norte on 0//08/1962.

There are replicas in Barranquilla, 1919: La Paz, 1925: and Paris, 1933

"THE QUINTA DE SAN PEDRO ALEJANDRINO" in 1982
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Place were The Liberator died wich was bought by order of Congress in 1880

"MODEL FOR A MONUMENT TO SIMON BOLIVAR" by Emile-Antonio Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
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Material: Bronze
Size: 60 x 55 x 25 cm
1913

Location: Musée Bourdelle, Paris

"TRIUMPHAL ARCH AT CAMPO DE CARABOBO"
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Design: Alejandro Chataing, Ricardo Razetti
Execution: Manuel Vicent Hernández
Sculptures: Lorenzo González, Pedro Basalo, et al.
Reinforced concrete
Total height: 26 m
Dedicated on 24/06/1921

"BOLIVAR’S SARCOPHAGUS" by Chicharro Gamo
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Material: Bronze
Location: Madrid, 1930;
Back ground, the Tenerani Monument which was moved from the Cathedral in 1876

Panteón Nacional, Caracas

"PANTEON NACIONAL"
Caracas
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"MONUMENT TO SIMON BOLIVAR" by Ferdinand von Muller
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Campo de Boyacá, dedicated on 11/05/1940

Material: Bronze and granite
Royal Munich Foundry
Pedestal: Archs. Eusebio Santamaría, Trujillo Gómez & Martínez Cárdenas

"MONUMENT TO SIMON BOLIVAR" by Felix W. de Weldon (Austria-U.S.A)
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Material: Bronze
Statue: 4 m
Marble pedestal: 4 m
Designed by Luis Malausena and Oficina Técnica Casielle Asociados

Built by Faulkner, Kingsbury & Stenhouse
Eighteenth and C streets and Virginia Ave,
Washington DC
Unveiled on 27/02/1959

"MONUMENT TO SIMON BOLIVAR" by Pietro Canonica
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Replica of the 1934 original
Material : Bronze
Bruni Foudry, Rome, 31/03/1962
Assembly: Arch. Joaquín Alvarez Ordóñez
Paseo de la Reforma and Violeta,
Mexico,
Unveiled on 23/06/1976

"SIMON BOLIVAR" by Hugo Daini
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Material: Bronze
Height: 2.5 m
Hugo Daini Foundry, Caracas
Plinth: Cecil Whitehead
Assembly: Archs. Manuel Silveira & R. Manrique Belgrave Square, London, unveiled on 12/06/1974

In the photo – former Venezuelan President Rafael Caldera and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Efraím Schacht Aristeguieta; the English Secretary for Foreign Affairs, James Callaghan; the Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfredo Vásquez Carrisoza and others

"BOLIVAR AND ANDRES BELLO" by Marisol (Venezuela)
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Material: Bronze and granite
Campanella Foundry, Caracas
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC)
Pipe, near Caracas, 1970

"MONUMENT TO SIMON BOLIVAR" by Emilio Laíz Campos
Material: Bronze
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Statue: 4 m
Pedestal in granite: 4 m
Angel González Sellas Foundry, Madrid
Parque Oeste, Madrid, unveiled on 31/10/1970

"MONUMENT TO SIMON BOLIVAR" by Emilio Laíz Campos
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réplica of the Rubio 1980 original
Material: Bronze
Height: 4 m
Paseo La Palmera, Sevilla, dedicated on 11/10/1981

In the photo- the Spanish King and Queen listening to the former Venezuelan President Rafael Caldera’s address

"SKETCH FOR THE ESCALADA DE LA LIBERTAD" OR "PASO DE LOS ANDES" by Manuel de la Fuente
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Size: 70 x 40 cm
January 1982
The Sculptor’s atelier, Mérida

 

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