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Fountain Of The Fallen Angel I

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Fountain of the Fallen Angel (park of El Retiro, Madrid, Spain)
In 1877, during his third year as a pensioner in the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Madrid sculptor Ricardo Bellver (1845-1924) made in plaster a work called ‘The Fallen Angel’. The following year he won the First Class Medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts held in Madrid.
The work was acquired by the state for 4,500 pesetas. The request was accepted and the sculpture was ceded to the City of Madrid for installation in a public place in the capital.

The Fallen Angel roundabout has an official topographic altitude of 666 meters above the sea level. The monument seems to be a sort “tribute" to Lucifer, the evil, or the heretical, and has sparked the imagination of many fans for esotericism.
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