Task #10 A WAKLDOWN MALAGA

Pedro de Mena

This statue is called Pedro de Mena, it represent Pedro de Mena, he was a sculpter of baroque.

He born in Granada in 1628 and dead in 1688 in Malaga.

His sculptures more importants are: Niño en la luna

                                                          Dolorosa

                                                          La soledad

                                                          Virguen de la sangre

His parents was: Alonso de Mena and Juana de Medrano.

He did his sculptures in a workshop in granada.

This is what I learnt:

Cánovas del castillo

This statue is an honoring to Cánovas del Castillo who born in Málaga in February, 8th of August in 1828 and died in Mondragón in 1897. 

He was a politician and Spanish historian, president of the Cabinet during most of the last quarter of the 19th century. It was one of the most influential figures of Spanish politics. 

He was a member of the Liberal Union. In 1854 he was elected deputy by Málaga for the Constituent ones and, to the fall of O'Donnell, governing civilian of Cádiz. He was the secretary of Government in 1864 and of Overseas in 1865 during the reign of Isabel II before the First Spanish Republic be proclaming. After the Revolution of 1868 and end of the Bourbon monarchy it took charge preparing the return of the one that would be Alfonso XII, Isabel II's son.

Cánovas died murdered on August 8th, in 1897 in "El Balneario of Santa Águeda".

In 1975, Málaga's town hall raised a monument in honoring to this politician of Málaga and in 2009 was installed a plate in his honor.

The monument was made by the sculptor Jesús Martínez Labrador, who is from Antequera. 
It's located in Cánovas del Castillo Avenue and it's and the entrance of Málaga's Park because he was one of the promoter of this construction.

It was open in 1975 such a tribute to him, but before this date, the monument stayed almost a year enclosed in a storehouse due to the newspaper said it wasn't the time to open a monument of someone that restored the monarchy, when a dictatorship was controlling the country. 

The monument has a strange face because the sculptor was inspired by a caricature.

-Paula Romero.