Ricardo Velosa
Ricardo Velosa is a Brazilian-born Portuguese sculptor and a professor at the Higher Institute of Plastic Arts at the University of Madeira. He is known for creating sculptures of prolific Portuguese figures on the island of Madeira.
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- Name
- Ricardo Velosa
- Birth Name
- Ricardo Jorge Abrantes Velosa
- Born
- 3 January 1947
- Birthplace
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Occupation
- Sculptor
- Full name
- Ricardo Jorge Abrantes Velosa.
- Nationality
- Portugal.
- Languages
- Portuguese.
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Ricardo Velosa is a Brazilian-born Portuguese sculptor and a professor at the Higher Institute of Plastic Arts at the University of Madeira. He is known for creating sculptures of prolific Portuguese figures on the island of Madeira.
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Ricardo Velosa (born 1947) is a sculptor, of Portuguese nationality. The sculptor was born Ricardo Jorge Abrantes Velosa in Rio de Janeiro. Languages used include Portuguese.
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• Name — Ricardo Velosa • Birth Name — Ricardo Jorge Abrantes Velosa • Born — 3 January 1947 • Birthplace — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Occupation — Sculptor
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He is known for creating several works, the best known of his being the statue of Cristiano Ronaldo outside the entrance of Museu CR7 located in Funchal, Portugal. Other notable works of his include sculpting a bronze bust portrait of Francisco Sá Carneiro, the former prime minister of Portugal from January to December 1980 along with a sculpture called the Homenagem aos Carreiros, depicting a toboggan driver pushing his cart downhill. Other works of his also include a prominent statue of Júlio Dinis, an important novelist and poet of modern Portugal, being the first to produce literature meant for middle-class readers. One of his notable works around Funchal is a mermaid sculpture named the Sereia do Funchal (Mermaid of Funchal), which is located on the banks of the Funchal harbor.
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Ricardo Velosa was born in 1947 at Rio de Janeiro.
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- 1.ESTUDO DE VIABILIZAÇÃO PARA A CRIAÇÃO E IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DE UMA ASSOCIAÇÃO PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DO DESTINO TURÍSTICO MONTE. core.ac.uk.
- 2."À conversa com Ricardo Velosa" no Centro Cultural Anjos Teixeira. madeiraislandmagazine.pt.
- 3.Universidade da Madeira. www.uma.pt.
- 4.O Busto. Dnoticias.pt.
- 5.Marques, Ana Cristina. Cristiano Ronaldo e uma estátua que está a dar que falar. Observador.
- 6.Cristiano Ronaldo inaugura su estatua en Madeira. El Huffington Post. 21 December 2014.
- 7.Ricardo Velosa - Fórum dos Numismatas. Numismatas.com.
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