| El Cid Campeador | |
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.jpg) The statue in 2006 | |
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| Artist |
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| Year | 1927 (1927) |
| Type | Sculpture |
| Medium | Sculpture:bronze Base: concrete or Indiana limestone |
| Subject | El Cid |
| Condition | "Treatment needed" (1994) |
| Location | San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 32°43′51″N117°09′02″W / 32.73095°N 117.15044°W /32.73095; -117.15044 |
El Cid Campeador is an outdoorequestrian statue depicting the 11-century Spanish knight and warlordEl Cid by artistAnna Hyatt Huntington, architectWilliam Templeton Johnson, and the foundry General Bronze Company, installed atBalboa Park'sPlaza de Panama inSan Diego, California. Thebronze sculpture was created in 1927 and dedicated on July 5, 1930.
The statue measures approximately 11 x 9 x 7 ft, with a 16-foot diameter, and its concrete or Indiana limestone base measures approximately 11 x 14 x 8 ft. It was surveyed and deemed "treatment needed" by theSmithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in March 1994.[1]
Copies of Huntington's statue exist in other cities, including Buenos Aires, New York City, San Francisco, Seville, and Valencia.[2] The New York cast is on the grounds of theHispanic Society of America onAudubon Terrace inManhattan. Anna Hyatt Huntington was the wife ofArcher M. Huntington, the society's founder.
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