The Monument of the Discoveries – the Statues

 The Monument of the Discoveries – the Statues

 © Andrzej Philips

In addition to the main statue of Henry the Navigator, holding a model of a carrack, on either side of the ramps of the monument are a total of 33 figures from the history of the Discoveries, specifically (from right to left).

Eastern profile (figures labeled)

Western profile (figures labeled)

Eastern profile

Western profile

1.      Afonso V of Portugal 2.    Vasco da Gama (discoverer of the sea route to India) 3.    Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia (navigator) 4.    Pedro Álvares Cabral (discoverer of Brazil) 5.    Ferdinand Magellan (first to circumnavigate the globe) 6.    Nicolau Coelho (navigator) 7.    Gaspar Corte-Real (navigator) 8.    Martim Afonso de Sousa (navigator) 9.    João de Barros (writer) 10.  Estêvão da Gama (sea captain) 11.  Bartolomeu Dias (first to cross over the Cape of Good Hope) 12.  Diogo Cão (first to arrive to the Congo river) 13.  António de Abreu (navigator) 14.  Afonso de Albuquerque (second viceroy of Portuguese India) 15.  Saint Francis Xavier (missionary) 16.  Cristóvão da Gama (captain)

17.  Peter, Duke of Coimbra (son of King John I of Portugal) 18.  Queen Philippa of Lancaster 19.  Fernão Mendes Pinto (explorer and writer) 20.  Frei Gonçalo de Carvalho, O.P. (Dominican Missionary) 21.  Frei Henrique de Coimbra, O.F.M. (Franciscan Missionary) 22.  Luís de Camões (renaissance poet who celebrated the navigations in the epic Lusiadas) 23.  Nuno Gonçalves (painter) 24.  Gomes Eanes de Zurara (chronicler) 25.  Pero da Covilhã (traveller) 26.  Jácome de Maiorca (Jehudà Cresques, cartographer) 27.  Pedro Escobar (pilot) 28.  Pedro Nunes (mathematician) 29.  Pero de Alenquer (pilot) 30.  Gil Eanes (navigator) 31.  João Gonçalves Zarco (navigator) 32.  Ferdinand the Holy Prince (son of King John I of Portugal)

 

Henry the Navigator is depicted on many stamps.

 

The sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida and group of workers who worked on plastering the figures (1940 year).

 

Co-creator of the Monument of Discoveries, the sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida is also the author of the Monument of Henry the Navigator in Lagos.

the Monument of Henry the Navigator in Lagos

 

Leopoldo Neves de Almeida (Lisbon, October 18, 1898 – April 28, 1975), was a Portuguese sculptor and professor. He belongs to the second generation of Portuguese modernist artists.

Leopoldo Neves de Almeida 

Some works

Fauno, 1927, coll. Chiado Museum.

Bas-reliefs, 1934, facade of the Éden Cinema, Lisbon.

Monument to António José de Almeida, 1935-37, Lisbon (in collaboration with Porfírio Pardal Monteiro).

Padrão dos Descobrimentos, 1940 (current version: 1960), Belém, Lisbon (in collaboration with Cottinelli Telmo).

Óscar Carmona, City Museum Garden, Lisbon.

Monument to D. Sancho I, 1946, Silves Castle.

The Family, 1947, gardens of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Lisbon.[6]

Ramalho Ortigão, 1948-49, Jardim da Cordoaria, Porto.

D. Afonso Henriques, 1950, Campo Grande, Lisbon.

D. João I, 1950, Campo Grande, Lisbon.

Eça de Queiroz, 1952, Praça do Almada, Póvoa de Varzim.

Marcelino Mesquita, 1956, Cartaxo.

António Feliciano de Castilho, Av. da Liberdade, Lisbon.

Justice, c. 1960, Palace of Justice, Porto.

Equestrian statue by Nuno Álvares Pereira, 1961, Batalha.

Equestrian statue of D. João I, Praça da Figueira, Lisbon.

Monument to Infante D. Henrique, Lagos.

Monument to Calouste Gulbenkian, 1974, gardens of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Av. de Berna, Lisbon.