Joaquim Machado de Castro

Joaquim Machado de Castro ( born June 19, 1731 in Coimbra, † November 17, 1822 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese sculptor. His most famous work is the equestrian statue of José I at the Praça do Comércio.

Career

His father, Manuel Teixeira Machado, organist and sculptors, already promoted early in his son Joaquim, by sending him to the Jesuit court school for learning the Latin grammar. Manuel Teixeira Machado led him also to the sculpting. With 15 years of Joaquim Machado de Castro decided to move to the Portuguese capital Lisbon, there to receive comprehensive art education. There he learned the wood carver Nicolau Pinto, but moved by his performance soon to continue under the protection of King João V. sculptor José de Almeida. His first presented in public sculpture stands at the Church of São Pedro de Alcântara Convention, which was generously extended at the time.

Subsequently, he participated on the side of the sculptor Alexandre Giusti in the design of the national palace in Mafra ( Palácio Nacional de Mafra ), so that he spent 14 years in the north of the capital city. There he met, among others, his friend and admirer Cândido Vieira Lusitano, a writer, know.

In 1760 he received an invitation to take part I. the competition for a statue honoring José. Initially he made ​​several, small models, in 1771 he received the contract to design the statue until 1772. After 1773/74 the first foundations were established, the equestrian statue of Portuguese King José I in the Praça do Comércio Lisbon was inaugurated until 1775. He also made ​​this his Descripção analytica because execução because estatua equestre on to German " Analytical description of the embodiments of the equestrian statue ," published in 1810 in Lisbon. In his description discusses the different views of his work, describes the relationship between rider and horse, as well as cross-sections of individual sections of the sculpture.

Since he had created with his equestrian statue of a very prominent public work of Machado de Castro received further orders. These include the statue entitled Fé ( Faith ) at the Palace of the Inquisition ( Palácio da Inquisição ) in Évora, which no longer exists today.

Due to his numerous works was Machado de Castro in 1814 a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences ( Academia Real the Ciências ). In addition, he still received an honorary dignity of the rank of Knight of the Order of Christ ( Ordem de Cristo ). He died on November 17, 1822 at age 91 and was buried in the Basilica de Nossa Senhora dos Martires in Lisbon. Until his death he was married to Maria Barbosa de Sousa.

There Machado de Castro's honor in Coimbra in 1913, inaugurated great art museum called Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro.

  • Sculptor (Portugal )
  • Portuguese
  • Support of the Portuguese Order of Christ
  • Born in 1731
  • Died in 1822
  • Man
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