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Manuel Vicente Tolsá Sarrión (Enguera, Valencia, Spain, May 4, 1757 – Mexico City, December 24, 1816) was a prolific Neoclassical architect and sculptor in Spain and Mexico. He served as the first director of the Academy of San Carlos.

Portrait of Manuel Tolsá, by Rafael Ximeno y Planes
Portrait of Manuel Tolsá, by Rafael Ximeno y Planes
Bust of Manuel Tolsá, by Martín Soriano
Bust of Manuel Tolsá, by Martín Soriano

Biography


Tolsá studied at the Royal Academy of San Carlos in Valencia and the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. He was a student of José Puchol in sculpture and of Ribelles, Gascó and Gilabert in architecture. In Spain he was the sculptor of the king's chamber, minister of the Supreme Junta of Commerce, Minting and Mines, and an academic in San Fernando. In 1790 he was named director of sculpture at the recently created Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. He sailed from Cádiz in February, 1791, bringing with him to New Spain, in accordance with the king's instructions, books, instruments of his profession, and plaster copies of classic sculptures from the Vatican Museum. He married María Luisa de Sanz Téllez Girón y Espinosa in the port of Veracruz.

Signature
Signature

On his arrival in Mexico City the ayuntamiento (city government) made him supervisor of the drainage and water supply systems of the city and assigned him the tasks of the replanting the Alameda park in the center of the city and the grounds of the coliseum. For these services he did not receive compensation. Thereafter he dedicated himself to the artistic and civil works for which he is now remembered. He also built furniture, made adornments for altars (candelabra, crucifixes, etc.), cast cannons, opened a bathhouse, built coaches and established a kiln. He donated a collection of molds and figures and 300 medals and coins to the Academy of San Carlos.

Tolsá died in 1816 of a gastric ulcer. His remains were interred in the church of Santa Veracruz, and later transferred to San Fernando.


Tolsá's works in Mexico


The Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
The Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
Palace of the Marqués del Apartado
Palace of the Marqués del Apartado
Hospicio Cabañas was declared a World Heritage Site in 1997
Hospicio Cabañas was declared a World Heritage Site in 1997
Equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain (also known as El Caballito) on Plaza Manuel Tolsá
Equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain (also known as El Caballito) on Plaza Manuel Tolsá

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[de] Manuel Tolsá Sarrión

Manuel Tolsá Sarrión (* 4. Mai 1757 in Enguera, Provinz Valencia; † 25. Dezember 1816 in Las Lagunas) war ein spanisch-mexikanischer Baumeister und Bildhauer.
- [en] Manuel Tolsá

[es] Manuel Tolsá

Manuel Vicente Agustín Tolsá y Sarrión (en valenciano: Manuel Tolsà Sarrion. Enguera, Valencia, 4 de mayo de 1757 - Ciudad de México, 24 de diciembre de 1816) fue un reconocido arquitecto, ingeniero y escultor español, que vivió y desarrolló su actividad en la Nueva España (hoy México) desde 1791 en donde quedó encargado, casi hasta su muerte, como Director de Escultura de la Academia de San Carlos.



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