MEDALLA HOMENAJE A MARCELINO MENÉNDEZ Y PELAYO POR SU ELECCIÓN COMO DIRECTOR DE LA REAL ACADEMIA DE LA HISTORIA, OBRA DE LORENZO COULLAUT VALERA

Joaquín Manuel  Álvarez-Cruz

doi:10.12795/LA.2015.i27.22

MEDAL HOMAGE TO MARCELINO MENENDEZ PELAYO FOR YOUR CHOICE AS DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF HISTORY, WORK LORENZO COULLAUT VALERA

Authors

Joaquín Manuel Álvarez-Cruz University of Seville. Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/LA.2015.i27.22

Keywords:

sculpture, medals, Modernism, 20th century, Spain, Andalusia, Lorenzo Coullaut Valera, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo

Abstract

In this work there is studied the medal with which Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo was honoured in 1910 on the occasion of his choice as the director of the Royal Academy of the History. Magnificent example of the labor as medalist of the sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut Valera, in her introduces multiple features of modernist nature that provide it with great interest and plastic originality.