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Works :
In
Catalonia:
Christ in cross
(1866)
Christ recumbent
(2) (1872
- 1876)
The lions
hunter
(Ciutadella Park in
Barcelona 1884)
Boy fountain
(Can Mantega Gardens
in
Barcelona 1880)
Bison
Orangutan cub
Christopher Columbus
Elephant
Elisabeth II introduce Alphonse XII
(Pedralbes Palace
in Barcelona)
Faun and Nymph
Female
Nudes (2)
Heraldic lions
(Monument to Columbus
in
Barcelona)
Lion
(Ciutadella Park Zoo in
Barcelona)
Monastery of Montserrat façade
(Together with his brother
Venanci)
Monk with an ill man in his
arms
Old faun
The Commerce
(Ciutadella Park in Barcelona)
The guardian angel
The thorn coronation
The Immaculate Conception
The Industry
(Ciutadella Park in Barcelona)
The Pietà
The Tradition
Two
dromedaries
Lion
(Parc de la Ciutadella Zoo in
Barcelona)
Heraldic lions
(Monument to Columbus
in
Barcelona)
Lucifer
Napolitana
Saint Francis
Saint Francis of Paul
Saint Joan de Déu (Saint
John of God)
Saint Jordi (Saint
George)
Saint Stephen
Silé
Head of camel
Zinger
Funerary
sculpture:
Main gate of
the Poble Nou cemetery
in Barcelona
Vilaregut
family Mausoleum
(Southwest
Cemetery in Barcelona)
Urquinaona Bishop Mausoleum
Out
of Catalonia:
Monument
to the king James the I
(València
1891)
Jorbalán
Vicountess Mausoleum
(Adoratrius
Church in València)
Agapit Vallmitjana
(Relief by Pau Gargallo)
Life:
Born in Barcelona in 1833.
He studied together with its brother Venanci in the School of Llotja in Barcelona as disciple of the famous Catalonian sculptor Damiá Campeny.
He initiates its artistic career together with his brother Venanci
sculpting small nativity scene figures of baroque style in a shop of the street Tapinería of Barcelona.
In 1872 he went with its brother Venanci to Manchester where they carried out the portraits of Lord Stanley and
his wife.
In 1881, he is named professor of the School of Llotja in which before he had been student.
As his brother Venanci, he carries out a very realistic sculpture and puts a great deal of care in the detail. A good part of its work is carried out in contribution with
his brother, for which at times, it is difficult to attribute a work to one or another.
The work of Agapit has been considered traditionally complementary of that of
his brother Venanci that is more spectacular, nevertheless, it is appreciated in the work of Agapit a formal perfection that the most brilliant work of Venanci not reaches.
So much Venanci as Agapit Vallmitjana should be considered academic sculptors
in a realistic style and therefore previous to modernism
(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.
Barbany died in Barcelona in the year 1905.
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