{"id":33,"date":"2007-11-07T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T19:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2007-11-07T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T19:59:01","slug":"etchings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"026. pedro jos\u00e9 d\u00edaz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rarely found but interesting to seek out are drawings etched in stone or concrete. This particular spot has no family name or artist&#8217;s signature, but the vault belongs to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?page_id=164\">Pedro Jos\u00e9 D\u00edaz<\/a><\/strong> who fought in early wars after Argentina declared independence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200612F35.jpg\" alt=\"Pedro Jos\u00e9 D\u00edaz, Recoleta Cemetery\" title=\"Pedro Jos\u00e9 D\u00edaz, Recoleta Cemetery\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200501C38.jpg\" alt=\"Pedro Jos\u00e9 D\u00edaz, Recoleta Cemetery\" title=\"Pedro Jos\u00e9 D\u00edaz, Recoleta Cemetery\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During my initial visits to Recoleta Cemetery several years ago, I remember a bust of someone in military uniform decorating this tomb. Unfortunately it has been removed, &amp; I never took a photograph. The quality of the etching is generally very good, but the miniature swords detract from the strength of the overall image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200802B04.jpg\" alt=\"Pedro Jos\u00e9 D\u00edaz, Recoleta Cemetery\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update (24 Jan 2021):<\/strong> Thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=6242\">book by Oscar Andr\u00e9s De Masi<\/a> published in 2012, we can add a photo of the former bust &amp; confirm the author of the tomb. <strong>Juan Carlos Oliva Navarro<\/strong>, best known for the monument to Pedro de Mendoza in Parque Lezama (San Telmo), designed this vault&#8230; &amp; even signed the photo below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/newPJD.jpg\" alt=\"Pedro Jos\u00e9 D\u00edaz, Recoleta Cemetery\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely found but interesting to seek out are drawings etched in stone or concrete. This particular spot has no family name or artist&#8217;s signature, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=33\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">026. pedro jos\u00e9 d\u00edaz<\/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":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","category-military","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}