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El Cid Campeador
El Cid Campeador
	The statue in 2006
Artist	Anna Hyatt Huntington (sculptor); William Templeton Johnson (architect);
Year	1927
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Sculpture: bronze; Base: concrete or Indiana limestone
Subject	El Cid
Condition	"Treatment needed" (1994)
Location	San Diego, California, U.S.
	32°43′51″N 117°09′02″W / 32.73095°N 117.15044°W

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El Cid Campeador is an outdoor equestrian statue depicting the 11-century Spanish knight and warlord El Cid by artist Anna Hyatt Huntington, architect William Templeton Johnson, and the foundry General Bronze Company, installed at Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama in San Diego, California. The bronze sculpture was created in 1927 and dedicated on July 5, 1930.

The statue measures approximately 11 x 9 x 7 ft, with a 16-foot diameter, and its concrete or Indiana limestone base measures approximately 11 x 14 x 8 ft. It was surveyed and deemed "treatment needed" by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in March 1994.^[1]

Copies of Huntington's statue exist in other cities, including Buenos Aires, New York City, San Francisco, Seville, and Valencia.^[2] The New York cast is on the grounds of the Hispanic Society of America on Audubon Terrace in Manhattan. Anna Hyatt Huntington was the wife of Archer M. Huntington, the society's founder.

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El Cid Campeador around the world

San Francisco
New York City
Seville, Spain
Valencia, Spain

References

^ "El Cid Campeador, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution.
^ Ollman, Leah (July 6, 1990). "Park's Buffed-Up 'El Cid' Remains Lackluster". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 2, 2018.

[1] "El Cid Campeador, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution.

[2] Ollman, Leah (July 6, 1990). "Park's Buffed-Up 'El Cid' Remains Lackluster". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 2, 2018.

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-'''''El Cid Campeador''''' is an outdoor [[equestrian statue]] depicting the Spanish knight [[El Cid]] by artist [[Anna Hyatt Huntington]], architect [[William Templeton Johnson]], and the foundry General Bronze Company, installed at [[Balboa Park (San Diego)|Balboa Park]]'s [[Plaza de Panama]], in [[San Diego]], California. The [[bronze sculpture]] was created in 1927 and dedicated on July 5, 1930. The statue measures approximately 11 x 9 x 7&nbsp;ft, with a 16-foot diameter, and its concrete or Indiana limestone base measures approximately 11 x 14 x 8&nbsp;ft. It was surveyed and deemed "treatment needed" by the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s "[[Save Outdoor Sculpture!]]" program in March 1994.<ref>{{cite web|title=El Cid Campeador, (sculpture).|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!321934~!0#focus|publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>
+'''''El Cid Campeador''''' is an outdoor [[equestrian statue]] depicting the 11-century Spanish knight and warlord [[El Cid]] by artist [[Anna Hyatt Huntington]], architect [[William Templeton Johnson]], and the foundry General Bronze Company, installed at [[Balboa Park (San Diego)|Balboa Park]]'s [[Plaza de Panama]] in [[San Diego, California]]. The [[bronze sculpture]] was created in 1927 and dedicated on July 5, 1930.
+The statue measures approximately 11 x 9 x 7&nbsp;ft, with a 16-foot diameter, and its concrete or Indiana limestone base measures approximately 11 x 14 x 8&nbsp;ft. It was surveyed and deemed "treatment needed" by the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s "[[Save Outdoor Sculpture!]]" program in March 1994.<ref>{{cite web|title=El Cid Campeador, (sculpture).|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!321934~!0#focus|publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>
-Copies of Huntington's statue exist in other cities, including Buenos Aires, New York City, San Francisco, Seville, and Valencia.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} The New York version is on the grounds of the [[Hispanic Society of America]] on [[Audubon Terrace]] in [[Manhattan]]. Anna Hyatt Huntington  was the wife of [[Archer M. Huntington]], the society's founder.
+Copies of Huntington's statue exist in other cities, including Buenos Aires, New York City, San Francisco, Seville, and Valencia.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ollman|first1=Leah|title=Park's Buffed-Up 'El Cid' Remains Lackluster|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 6, 1990|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-06-ca-295-story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202032902/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-06/entertainment/ca-295_1_el-cid|archive-date=February 2, 2018}}</ref> The New York cast is on the grounds of the [[Hispanic Society of America]] on [[Audubon Terrace]] in [[Manhattan]]. Anna Hyatt Huntington  was the wife of [[Archer M. Huntington]], the society's founder.
 ==Gallery==
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 ==See also==
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 * [[1927 in art]]
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+{{Rodrigo Díaz}}
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v t e Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ("El Cid")
Reign	Prince of Valencia (1094–1099)
Battles	Battle of Graus (1063) Battle of Llantada (1068) Battle of Golpejera (1072) Battle of Cabra (1079) Battle of Almenar (1082) Battle of Morella (1084–1088) Battle of Bairén (1097)
Swords	Tizona Colada
Family	Jimena Díaz (wife) Diego Rodríguez (son) Cristina Rodríguez (daughter) María Rodríguez (daughter) García Ramírez of Navarre (grandson) Diego Fernández of Oviedo (father-in-law)
Places	Camino del Cid (cultural itinerary) Tomb of El Cid and Doña Jimena (tomb) Torrecid (camp) Vivar del Cid (birthplace)
Historical sources	Carmen Campidoctoris (epic poem, c. 1083) Ibn Alqama (historian, c. 1100) Ibn Bassam (historian, c. 1109) Historia Roderici (chronicle, c. 1181–1190) Crónica particular del Cid (biography, 1512)
Depictions	Cantar de mio Cid (cantar de gesta, c. 1140–1207) Mocedades de Rodrigo (cantar de gesta, c. 1360) Crónica popular del Cid (biography, 1498) Le Cid (tragicomedy, 1637) Le Cid (opera, 1885) El Cid Campeador (sculpture, 1927) El Cid (film, 1961) Ruy, the Little Cid (animated series, 1980) Rodrigue et Chimène (opera, 1993) El Cid: The Legend (animated film, 2003) El Cid (TV series, 2020)