El Monumento al Sagrado Corazón de Jesús en Bilbao

ÁLVAREZ CRUZ, Joaquín

Publication year:

2003

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1137-4403

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Summary

This article contains a study of the monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus erected in Bilbao, in 1927, detailing its process of erection, with special attention paid to the international contest carried out for its assignment. This is also an indepth study of the iconography of its architectural and sculptural elements, and of the significance of such elements in this type of monuments. The article also analyses the artistic contributions that its authors, Lorenzo Coullaut Valera and Pedro Muguruza Otaño, carried out in the monument.