Monument to Joan de Joanes

In Plaza del Carmen, between the parish church of Santíssima Creu, formerly El Carmen, and the Palace of Pineda, since 1960 stands the sculpture that, by the hand of the painter and sculptor Marià García Més, first pensioned in Fine Arts by the Provincial Council of Valencia, effigated the distinguished Valencian painter Vicente Juan Macip, known as Joan de Joanes (Font de la Figuera, 1523- ?, although it is well thought he was born in the city of Valencia, + in Bocairent, 1579) central figure of Valencian painting and personifier of the Renaissance in it, after the Manchego Yáñez and Llanos and his own father and teacher Vicente Juan Macip.

The figure was modelled in Rome by García Més during his pension and remained for a long time in non-definitive matter in the same Museum of Fine Arts, in its installation in the old Carmen, until, on the initiative of his live shows, Manuel González Martí, it was poured into stone and installed provisionally on the land that the new installation of the Museum -San Pio V-, it has adjacent to the Nurseries.

This saved the work whose original died in the flood of 1957 and, shortly afterwards, on the initiative of Mayor Rincón de Arellano, who arranged so many other sculptures as street ornaments of Valencia, it was installed in Plaza del Carmen. The work, in its helical rhythm, somewhat contradicts the serenity of the painter he efficated, although he translates his Renaissance and creative restlessness.

Previously, in the same square a cast iron bust had been installed, on a pedestal, representing the painter, with a fountain in its surroundings.

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