{"id":90,"date":"2008-01-02T22:51:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T01:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2022-02-07T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T09:16:54","slug":"familia-de-don-llambi-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"080. familia de don llambi campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Llambi Campbell, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200612E15.jpg\" alt=\"Llambi Campbell, Recoleta Cemetery\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This gated family vault uses only underground storage with little ornamentation above except for one of the most beautiful angels in the cemetery. Paulino Llambi Campbell owned a large amount of land in the Argentine province of Santa Fe &amp; named the area &amp; town after his family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The angel holds a trumpet in one hand while crossing her arms over her chest. The slightly bowed head is hardly demure&#8230; she has a very come-hither look on her face. Add some sensual curves &amp; this is one of the most <em>femme fatale<\/em> statues in Recoleta Cemetery:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Llambi Campbell, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200612E16.jpg\" alt=\"Llambi Campbell, Recoleta Cemetery\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But this statue is not unique. Inspired by a similar angel in <b>Staglieno Cemetery<\/b> in Genoa, Italy, she makes the Recoleta version seem absolutely tame. The original was made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=5299\">Giulio Monteverde<\/a>, an Italian artist who trained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=1011\">Lola Mora<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=925\">Victor de Pol<\/a> as well as sculpting the crucifixion inside the entrance gate chapel. Thanks to Sergio Sanginisi for taking such a wonderful photo:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Staglieno Cemetery angel, Genoa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/staglieno01.jpg\" alt=\"Staglieno Cemetery angel, Genoa\" width=\"350\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just above the staircase which descends into the family vault is an inscription in French, &#8220;there is no death except for the one who is forgotten.&#8221; Thanks to Sergio for helping with the translation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Llambi Campbell, Recoleta Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200711D30.jpg\" alt=\"Llambi Campbell, Recoleta Cemetery\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Update (08 Feb 2012):<\/strong> Thanks to the online <strong>Witcomb Collection<\/strong>, older versions of Recoleta Cemetery are coming to light. A nearby plot (four mini-blocks to the right) originally belonged to <strong>Vicente Ocampo<\/strong> &amp; displayed a more accurate copy of the Staglieno masterpiece. Unfortunately only the Llambi Campbell copy survives today, &amp; the Vicente Ocampo plot has been sold &amp; divided into four sub-plots. I wonder what the Ocampo family did with their copy???<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Ocampo, Colecci\u00f3n Witcomb\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/WitcombOcampo.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Ocampo, Colecci\u00f3n Witcomb\" width=\"332\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This gated family vault uses only underground storage with little ornamentation above except for one of the most beautiful angels in the cemetery. Paulino Llambi&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=90\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">080. familia de don llambi campbell<\/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-90","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\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6836,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}