Our Lady of Covadonga
1908.On display elsewhere
This work is the plaster model of Our Lady of Covadonga, made for the Covadonga Basilica.The final sculptural group was made of polychrome wood adorned with rhinestones. She presents a formal relationship between mother and child, since the relationship between the two figures is not maternal. The Child blesses in the manner of the taste of Cuattrocento. The definitive sculpture is located in its destination, inside the Covadonga Basilica.
Azcue Brea, Leticia, 'La melancolía de Roma: la escultura religiosa académica en la Corte alfonsina. Ecos puristas en la obra de Martín Riesco, los hermanos Vallmitjana o Samsó' En:. Svmma Stvdiorum Scvlptoricae, In memoriam Dr. Lorenzo Hernández Guardiola. II Congreso Internacional de Escultura Religiosa, Crevillent, octubre 2018, Alicante, Instituto alicantino de cultura y Diputación de Alicante, 2019, p.59-104 [93-94 lám.22]