Sculptor

Joaquim Machado de Castro

1731-1822 · Portuguese · 1 places

Portugal's greatest sculptor of the 18th century, Machado de Castro directed the casting of the equestrian bronze of José I for the Praça do Comércio (1775), a technically complex achievement he documented in his own treatise on equestrian…

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