In the triangular square, without specific name formed by the streets of Escultor José Capuz and Oriente, this monument is located in honor of the very remarkable plastic artist José Capuz Mamano, son of Valencia, Academician of the Royal Saints of San Fernando and San Carlos, professor at the School of Fine Arts of Madrid and Valencia and author of numerous and inspiring works.

It is composed of a shallow rectangular laundry, with a bronze statue of a boy with pigeons between his hands and chest, at an angle of the laundry, the work of Capuz, as well as a large rectangular block of country stone, earthy color, with a high relief creation of the master, with the sign corresponding to his subject the “Fisherwoman” and on the other side, the inscription “Valencia to José Capuz” with the coat of arms of the City and a self-portrait relief of the artist, which is part of his bust -existing in the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia -work of the also Valencian sculptor Francisco Marco Díaz-Pintado, the signature of the “F. Marco” and date “1935” are incised on the edge of the portrait.

The monument, in its material brevity, has a very worthy aesthetic category for the figure it commemorates, and the signatures of the two artists that appear in it, both Capuz and Marco Díaz-Pintato, as well as for the beauty of the “Pescadora”, a strong and expressive work, of classical solidity and insinuating noucentista modernism, characteristic of the master to whose memory he contributes.

It was inaugurated by Mayor Rincón de Arellano, in the presence of the widow and children of Master Capuz.

The street was labeled in May 1957, with the intervention of the representative of the City Council, of the Royal Academy of San Carlos, by the mouth of its president F. Mora Berenguery who writes in the capacity of director of the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos (who donated the tombstone discovered in the act), of which he was a brilliant student and to which José Capuz Mamano rendered teaching services for some time, author, from Valencia, of the Monuments to Doctor Moliner, the painter Peppino Benlliure and General Franco.



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Calle del Escultor José Capuz
46006 Valencia