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Belloni:<\/span> the Sculptor who molded the Uruguayan identity <\/span><\/h1>","description":"Discover the sculptor, draftsman and teacher behind his works, which reflect the Uruguayan culture and identity, is the new tourist proposal around the sculptor Jos\u00e9 Belloni.","info":"A route consisting of three circuits in Montevideo around Jos\u00e9 Belloni is incorporated to the Uruguayan cultural tourism offer: one in the Ciudad Vieja neighborhood; another in Paso Molino and Prado; and a third in Tres Cruces, Parque Batlle and Parque Rod\u00f3, all emblematic places linked to the artist and sites of historical and tourist interest.\r\n\r\nThere are three concepts that, in the words of his grandson, Jos\u00e9 Alverto Belloni, define him as a \"deeply conceptual sculptor in thought; naturalist in execution, with a slight tendency towards stylization\".\r\n\r\nHe generated more than 1,500 sculptures during his lifetime, without counting his paintings and watercolors. The artist's route will also be designed in other departments of the country and in the future, an international one will be generated, taking into account that his works are present in different parts of the world such as Argentina, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, United States, France, among other nations. An example of this is the marble of General Artigas located in the gallery of heroes in Washington, a replica of The Wagon in the White House, among others.\r\n

ORIGIN<\/b><\/p>\r\nSon of a Swiss gardener and a Spanish Basque mother, he was born in Uruguay on September 12, 1882 in the country house of the poet Aurelio Berro, in El Paso del Molino, Montevideo, and died in the same city in 1965.\r\n\r\nAt the age of 8 he traveled with his father Giuseppe to Switzerland. There he trained as an artist where he met his mentor, the sculptor Luigi Vassalli, who guided and trained him in various techniques.\r\n\r\nIn 1909 he returned to Uruguay to apply for a sculpture scholarship in the old continent, which allowed him to perfect his studies in Europe at the Royal Academy of Munich and later at the School of Fine Arts in Rome. His talent and his studies led him to be distinguished with several awards, he taught classes in molding and his work transcended frontiers.\r\n\r\nWhen his scholarship ended, he returned to Montevideo, where he was appointed by the Commission of the C\u00edrculo Fomento de Bellas Artes, to direct the classes of modeling and ornamental drawing, a position he held until 1914, and later he was appointed Director of the same Circle.\r\n

\u201cSCULPTOR OF THE HOMELAND\u201d<\/b><\/p>\r\n

\"Jos\u00e9 Belloni gave back to his people what his people had invested in him through his art. He was the Sculptor of the homeland, but also the artist of class equality and human rights. His legacy represents our identity and our origins as an oriental people.\", he added.<\/p>\r\nAs for his personality, Jos\u00e9 was a man of \"cheerful character, who established a relationship of complicity with his family and grandchildren,\" recalls his grandson.\r\n\r\nWithin his vast work, the monument to \"La Carreta\", located in the Batlle y Ordo\u00f1ez Park, one of the most admirable works of the sculptural genre, which achieved universal fame, as well as \"La Diligencia\", located in the Prado, a work of similar characteristics to the previous one, stands out.\r\n\r\nThe sculpture La Carreta, although its sketch was assembled in miniature in Montevideo, was completed in Florence, Italy, since at that time there were no foundries in all America that allowed the completion of a work of such magnitude, explained his grandson.\r\n\r\nHe is also the author of some decorative figures in the Sal\u00f3n de los Pasos Perdidos of the Legislative Palace and of the bas-reliefs of the national coat of arms in the antechamber of the Senate Chamber.\r\n\r\nThe sculptor Belloni believed above all in nature, in the rights of man, in the equality of genders and races, and in a more balanced world between the spiritual and the material. All this he managed to capture in his sculptures, making it difficult to pigeonhole them in the usual trends.\r\n

OLD CITY TOUR\r\n<\/b><\/p>\r\n

1) Montevideo Cathedral (Constituci\u00f3n Square)<\/strong> - In 1947 the artist created the sculptures for the remodeling of the pediment of the Iglesia Matriz, including the 3.50 meter high figures of the Virgin and the Patron Saints of the city (San Felipe and Santiago); the two angels attached to the towers, and the central concrete tympanum, with Jesus and his disciples.<\/p>\r\n

2) Solis Theater (Buenos Aires 678)<\/b> - Bas-relief commissioned to the artist by the Uruguayan Society of Authors in 1919, in homage to the playwright Florencio S\u00e1nchez, consisting of two bronze plaques framed in pink marble, with the icons of \"Tragedy\" and \"Comedy\", located in the lobby of the cultural center.<\/p>\r\n

3) Monument to Juan Manuel Blanes (Buenos Aires between Juncal and Liniers) <\/b>\u2013 Made in 1948, it pays homage to the so-called \"Painter of the Uruguayan Homeland\", for representing through his palette the most important acts of the consolidation of the national independence process.<\/p>\r\n

4) Monument to the Baron of Mau\u00e1 (Rambla Gran Breta\u00f1a and Ciudadela)<\/b> \u2013 It is a work of important dimensions in pink granite, in homage to Irineo Evangelista de Souza, relevant financier and Brazilian businessman who acted in Uruguay in the second half of the XIX century. The work is complemented by a bronze bust of the northern sculptor Rodolfo Bernardelli.<\/p>\r\n

5) Monument \"El Entrevero\" - Juan P. Fabini Square (18 de Julio Avenue between R\u00edo Negro and Julio Herrera y Obes) <\/b>\u2013 This work, inaugurated in 1967, after the artist's death two years earlier, recalls through bronze the combats of our wars of Independence and the civil struggles of Uruguay, paying homage to the humble soldier, defender of an ideal, represented by the gaucho, the black, the white and the Indian.<\/p>\r\nSee the complete Belloni route here<\/a>!\r\n\r\n+ info: www.museobelloni.com\/<\/a>","highlights":"","primary_image":"[{\"id\":2205,\"url\":\"https:\/\/uruguaynatural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BelloniyNieto-238-900x607-1.jpg\"}]","secondary_image":"[]","gallery_images":"[]","enable_map":"1","coord_lat":"","coord_lng":"","locations":"-34.892188202153854,-56.15516616759558|-34.905785121168456,-56.194260138487365|-34.9061722610837,-56.20344402215436|-34.90726328193372,-56.201298254942444|-34.91155683610203,-56.19872333428815|-34.86208362747114,-56.211059304962504|-34.89424849851174,-56.16458858753275","department":"Montevideo","places":"[{\"id\":2925,\"link\":\"http:\/\/uruguaynatural.com\/%places-slug%\/canelones\/\",\"title\":\"Canelones\",\"description\":\"En la actualidad es centro administrativo del departamento y en sus alrededores predominan peque\u00f1as chacras, quintas, bodegas y tambos tur\u00edsticos. Entre sus eventos destacados se destaca Fiesta Nacional de la Bandera y el Peric\u00f3n Federal que tiene lugar en diciembre.\\r\\n\\r\\nCanelones, en tanto departamento,\u00a0 se destaca por ser luego de Montevideo, por ser el m\u00e1s poblado del pa\u00eds y uno de los m\u00e1s estrat\u00e9gicos desde el punto de vista geopol\u00edtico. Situado al Sur del pa\u00eds, es el puente de comunicaci\u00f3n entre la capital y el interior del pa\u00eds, adem\u00e1s de receptor de visitantes extranjeros, al ser sede del Aeropuerto Internacional de Carrasco Cuenta con una superficie de m\u00e1s de 4.500 metros cuadrados y una poblaci\u00f3n que supera los 520 mil. Su territorio, levemente ondulado y pleno de llanuras, cuenta con un rico caudal de arroyos integrantes de la cuenca del r\u00edo Santa Luc\u00eda, fuente de riqueza acu\u00edfera potable para todo el sur del pa\u00eds, que termina desembocando en las costas del R\u00edo de la Plata. Existen adem\u00e1s algunos lagos de gran tama\u00f1o, tajamares o embalses y pozos excavados que almacenan agua durante el invierno para el riego en verano. Canelones es adem\u00e1s, un departamento fundamental para comprender la historia del pa\u00eds. De acuerdo a las instrucciones dadas por el Gral. Jos\u00e9 Gervasio Artigas en 1816, Canelones constituir\u00eda una de las seis jurisdicciones con que se dividir\u00eda la Provincia Oriental.\\r\\n\\r\\nLa ciudad de Canelones alberga importantes monumentos y construcciones que invitan a disfrutar del turismo hist\u00f3rico-cultural.\u00a0En el Parque Gral. Artigas se encuentra el Museo Arqueol\u00f3gico Antonio Taddei, quien fuera uno de los precursores de la Arqueolog\u00eda cient\u00edfica en Uruguay. Exhibe material paleontol\u00f3gico y fundamentalmente arqueol\u00f3gico pertenecientes a culturas ind\u00edgenas que habitaron nuestro territorio. Otro sitio imperdible de la capital canaria es la Catedral Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de Guadalupe, construida en 1843, con una tipolog\u00eda arquitect\u00f3nica representativa del Neoclacisimo espa\u00f1ol. En torno a la Capilla en honor a esta virgen se fund\u00f3 la Villa Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de Guadalupe en 1783 y fue a los pies de la imagen que se bendijo en 1829 al primer Pabell\u00f3n Nacional, creado por la Asamblea General Constituyente y Legislativa del Estado.\\r\\n\\r\\nEn la plaza 18 de Julio est\u00e1 el Monumento a la Bandera, inaugurado en 1939 y conocido como \u201cLa Joaquina\u201d, aludiendo al retrato en relieve de Joaqu\u00edn Su\u00e1rez que hay en su frente. La figura luce la cl\u00e1sica t\u00fanica griega de las alegor\u00edas c\u00edvicas de la \u00e9poca, sosteniendo en su mano derecha una espada y con la izquierda alza el pabell\u00f3n nacional.\\r\\n\\r\\n\u00a1No te pierdas!<\/strong>\\r\\n

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\\\"\\\"<\/h3>\\r\\nComplejo Cultural Politeama<\/strong>\\r\\n\\r\\nEl Complejo Cultural Politeama cumpli\u00f3 100 a\u00f1os y su denominaci\u00f3n hace referencia a que este espacio ha sido destinado hist\u00f3ricamente a diversos tipos de espect\u00e1culos como zarzuelas, representaciones teatrales, funciones de cine, bailes y hasta competencias de boxeo. Cuenta con dos tertulias y platea flanqueada por pasillos que componen la sala teatral \u201cAtahualpa del Cioppo\u201d.\u00a0Teatro Atahualpa del Cioppo. Reinaugurado en el a\u00f1o 2014 luego de varias reformas, es considerado el polo art\u00edstico de la ciudad y \u00e1mbito c\u00e9ntrico de realizaci\u00f3n de actividades culturales.\u00a0Contacto: 1828 Int. 1233\\r\\n

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\\\"\\\"<\/figure>\\r\\nMuseo Spikerman<\/strong>\\r\\n\\r\\nEn el mismo se exhiben materiales representativos de la etapa fundacional de la ciudad y una valiosa colecci\u00f3n numism\u00e1tica y otra de armas pertenecientes al proceso revolucionario Artiguista, a la Cruzada Libertadora y a las guerras civiles de la primera mitad del siglo XIX, adem\u00e1s de ara\u00f1as y un reloj que pertenecieron a jefes pol\u00edticos del departamento de la misma \u00e9poca.\u00a0Contacto: (+598) \u00a043323111\\r\\n\\r\\n<\/div>\\r\\n
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Ubicado en la plaza 18 de Julio de Canelones, es un monumento de estilo historicista \u00a0en homenaje al primer pabell\u00f3n nacional. Consiste en una figura femenina en postura vertical, con la cabeza erguida y expresi\u00f3n severa. Vestida con una t\u00fanica, sostiene una espada en la mano derecha y con la izquierda alza la bandera.<\/p>\\r\\n\u00a0\\r\\n\\r\\n<\/div>\\r\\n

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