{"id":1011,"date":"2009-12-07T16:08:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2021-08-17T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:44:07","slug":"360-familia-de-ramon-a-lopez-lecube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"360. familia de ram\u00f3n a. l\u00f3pez lecube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"L\u00f3pez Lecube, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200912B01.jpg\" alt=\"L\u00f3pez Lecube, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like so many other occupants of Recoleta Cemetery, the L\u00f3pez Lecube family owned large tracts of land in Argentina &#8212;theirs happened to be in the Province of Buenos Aires near the town of Puan. The remarkable thing about this tomb is its sculptures by <strong>Dolores &#8220;Lola&#8221; Mora<\/strong>&#8230; the only ones she ever did for a cemetery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dolores Mora, born in the province of Tucum\u00e1n in 1866, received a grant from Congress to continue her art studies in Rome. By 1898 her most famous professor was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=5299\">Giulio Monteverde<\/a> who did the crucifixion statue in the cemetery&#8217;s chapel:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Capilla, Giulio Monteverde, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200804I31.jpg\" alt=\"Capilla, Giulio Monteverde, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lola Mora returned to Buenos Aires with her first public commission in 1903&#8212;a fantastic fountain depicting the birth of Venus titled &#8220;<strong>Las Nereidas<\/strong>.&#8221; Unfortunately the fountain was installed in a poor location for such a monumental work &amp; was moved to Costanera Sur six years later. Some say that the naked figures on the fountain caused a scandal, but it was more likely a personal attack on Mora who had fallen out of official favor. She supervised the move, &amp; the fountain continues to impress over 100 years later:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Las Nereidas, Lola Mora\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200501B22.jpg\" alt=\"Las Nereidas, Lola Mora\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Las Nereidas, Lola Mora\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200501B16.jpg\" alt=\"Las Nereidas, Lola Mora\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Las Nereidas, Lola Mora\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200501B13.jpg\" alt=\"Las Nereidas, Lola Mora\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Las Nereidas, Lola Mora\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200501B19.jpg\" alt=\"Las Nereidas, Lola Mora\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moving the fountain was only the first of a series of public snubs Lola Mora suffered. The government refused to pay her for commissions, statues already in place on the steps of Congress were moved to faraway province, she was forced to sell her studio in Rome to pay debtors &amp; project after project was denied her. Times &amp; styles had changed, plus the affiliation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3053\">President Roca<\/a> did her little good in later years. Lola Mora died in 1936 with no fortune or fame.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statues for the L\u00f3pez Lecube vault were commissioned in 1912 already after her luck began to turn. At least they are a significant addition to the artistic heritage of the cemetery. Signed by Mora during her brief marriage to <strong>Luis Hern\u00e1ndez Otero<\/strong>, she was 15 years older than him &amp; later discovered he was cheating on her. Obviously it didn&#8217;t last. The statues have been recently cleaned, making the signature almost invisible. Sometimes a bit of grit adds character:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"L\u00f3pez Lecube, Lola Mora, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200912B03.jpg\" alt=\"L\u00f3pez Lecube, Lola Mora, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"L\u00f2pez Lecube, Lola Mora, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711A60.jpg\" alt=\"L\u00f3pez Lecube, Lola Mora, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"L\u00f3pez Lecube, Lola Mora, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200911Gaa.jpg\" alt=\"L\u00f3pez Lecube, Lola Mora, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"L\u00f3pez Lecube, Lola Mora, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200912B02.jpg\" alt=\"L\u00f3pez Lecube, Lola Mora, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Update (24 Oct 2011):<\/strong> During a recent visit to San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n, I was able to visit the <strong>crypt of Lola Mora<\/strong> in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.endlessmile.com\/tucuman-cementerio-del-oeste\/\">Cementerio del Oeste<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.endlessmile.com\/images\/201110\/201109G20.jpg\" alt=\"Argentina, Tucum\u00e1n, San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n, Cementerio del Oeste, Lola Mora\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"alert\">For more info about the fascinating life of Lola Mora, watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IrV-Um2q3BM\">this episode<\/a> of <em>bio.ar<\/em> produced by the government-sponsored Encuentro channel (in Spanish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many other occupants of Recoleta Cemetery, the L\u00f3pez Lecube family owned large tracts of land in Argentina &#8212;theirs happened to be in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1011\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">360. familia de ram\u00f3n a. l\u00f3pez lecube<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6565,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/6565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}