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El Cid Campeador (sculpture)

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El Cid Campeador
The statue in 2006
Artist
Year1927 (1927)
TypeSculpture
MediumSculpture: bronze
Base: concrete or Indiana limestone
SubjectEl Cid
Condition"Treatment needed" (1994)
LocationSan Diego, California, U.S.

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'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.[citation needed]

See also

References

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