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Sculpture:
Evangelists
(Together with
his brother Agapit
Vallmitjana 1854)
Sant Jordi (Saint
George 1861)
Portrait of Lord Stanley and his
wife (1872)
The Agriculture (Ciutadella
Park in Barcelona 1886)
The Marine (Ciutadella
Park
in Barcelona 1886)
The Tradition (1890)
Alphonse X the Wise (Barcelona
University)
Averroes (Barcelona University)
Baby
Bust of Benet Mercadé i Fàbregas (Catalonian
Parliament in Barcelona)
Diana fountain (Gran
Via/Llúria in Barcelona)
Fígaro
Lions (2) (Hall
of Catalonian Government
Palace)
Lluís Vives (Barcelona
University)
Manola
Monastery of Montserrat façade
(Together with his brother Agapit)
Old lady
portrait
(Barcelona City Hall first floor)
Ramon Llull (Barcelona
University)
Saint Isidor (Barcelona
University)
Saint Venanci
Sketch for a statue to the queen Maria Cristina
Statue of Antoni López i López
-
Marquis of Comillas - (P.Colom
/
Via Laietana in Barcelona)
The Muse of music (Gran
Teatre
del
Liceu - Opera house - in Barcelona)
The Pietá
The Trinity
Virgin
standing with the Christ-child
Virgin lifting the Crist-child
Women (2)
(Urban Police building in Barcelona -
attributed)
Young woman at the source
Life:
Born in Barcelona in 1826.
He studied together with his brother Agapit in the School of Llotja in Barcelona as disciple of the famous Catalonian sculptor
Damià Campeny. Being one of the most brilliant students, he received the prize of Llotja in 1844.
To start his artistic carrier, he carries out small nativity scene clay
figures together with his brother Agapit in a baroque style in an atelier
in Tapinería street of Barcelona.
Already in 1853, he carry out the statues of the evangelists for the Church of Sant Just of Barcelona. In 1856,
he is named professor of Llotja and a little later he carries out the statues of the facade of the Bank of Barcelona.
Being already a famous sculptor, his atelier in the chapel of Saint Àgata is
visited by the most famous personages of the epoch that carry out substantial assignments.
In 1872 he went with its brother Agapit to Manchester where they carried out the portraits of Lord Stanley and
his wife.
Subsequently he travels to Paris where its works were very well accepted.
A significant part of his work is carried out in contribution with his brother, for which at times,
it is difficult to attribute a work to one or another. Nevertheless, it is appreciated in the work of Venanci a greater flavor by the spectacularness. In general the studious consider of
higher quality the work of Venanci, but ultimately this opinion is in doubt and a current exists that appreciates a greater formal perfection in the work of Agapit.
So much Venanci as Agapit Vallmitjana should be considered academic sculptors of
realist style and therefore previous to Modernisme
(Catalan Art Nouveau), because the majority of its work is carried out before
of this style emersion, but the fact that both where teachers of famous modernist sculptors
as Llimona, Gargallo and other, gives them a special importance as precursors.
The death of his small brother Agapit in 1905 broke with the fertile
common work. Venanci Vallitjana i Barbany died in Barcelona in the year 1919.
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Pantheón in Arenys de Mar Cemetery
