TASK 11: A WALK DOWNTOWN MÁLAGA
GIVEN: 31/05/16DEADLINE: 19/06/16
INSTRUCTIONS:
A sculpture to be found downtown will be assigned to every pair of students. The students are to find information about it and share it with their classmates when we do the walk. They can carry some notes to do so.
Later, they are to make a little project containing the photos and the information gathered during the walk and upload it on their blogs for the teacher to see and value.
The statues chosen are the following:
Fuente de Genova. Pedro de Mena. Acteón y las ninfas. La ninfa de la caracola. Bernardo Ferrándiz. Cánovas del Castillo. Marques de Larios. Ben Gabirol. Monolito Plaza de la Merced. Graffiti in Soho.
Information must be found about the following aspects:
What's the statue called?
Who/What does it represent?
If a real person, give a brief biographical description.
Who/What does it represent?
If a real person, give a brief biographical description.
If it represents a number of unknown people, describe who they are/were and what they did.
If it represents a cultural or artistic event, describe it.
How are the people or events represented in the statue related to Málaga?
Who was the sculptor?
If it represents a cultural or artistic event, describe it.
How are the people or events represented in the statue related to Málaga?
Who was the sculptor?
How valuable is the statue?
When was it made?
What street is the statue at?
Has the statue always been at the same place?
Has the statue always been at the same place?
Are there any stories or anecdotes linked to this statue?
BERNARDO FERRÁNDIZ
On June, my class and I went for a walk in the city centre accompanied by the English teacher. The main aim of the activity was to learn about the history of some people and events from and about Málaga as seen through some of the statues there.
This is what I learnt:
This is what I learnt:
Bernardo Ferrándiz is a statue called the monument to Bernardo Ferrándiz. It's a tribute to Bernardo, it represents him. It's a real person, he was born in Valencia in 1835 and died in Malaga in 1885. He was one of the most important painters in valencia. He painted the ceilling of the Cervantes Theatre. The monument doesn't represent a cultural and artistic event or a number of unknow people. Bernardo is related to Malaga because he lived 17 years here and he also is considered one of the members of Malaga school of painting.
Its author is Vallmitjana Agapito, it was inaugurated in 1913 and it's a tribute to the Valencian painter. The statue is important because it represents a person who was very important in its time and was very important as he painted the ceiling of the cervantes theater. As I said before, was inaugurated in 1913, it is located in the park of Malaga on a pedestal made by Diego Garcia Carrera and it has always been on the same place. There aren't any stories about the monument.
Antonio 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.
