Person sculptor artist

Francisco Franco

d. 1916

sculptor · artist

Madeiran sculptor who made the model and the bronze statue of the monument to João Gonçalves Zargo, as well as the Terreiro da Luta bronze.

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Zarco (João Gonçalves) — Madeiran sculptor of the Zargo statue maquette and the Terreiro da Luta bronze.
Our Lady of Protection (chapels) — Founder of an Amparo chapel in Machico parish in 1692.
Quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira — Madeiran sculptor who made the model for the Zarco monument.
Bombardment of Funchal — Madeiran coal-barge worker killed when La Surprise sank in 1916 (not the sculptor).
Nossa Senhora do Amparo (fort) — Oversaw the fort's building and was its first captain.
Monument to João Gonçalves Zargo — Madeiran sculptor who made the bronze statue of Zargo.
Angústias (cemetery) — Sculptor of the 1917 monument to the bombardment victims.
Bombardment of Funchal — Madeiran sculptor who made the 1917 memorial to the 1916 victims.
Terreiro da Luta — Sculptor who made the Zarco statue at Terreiro da Luta.
António Augusto de Aguiar Industrial School — Workshop master and occasional interim teacher at the school.

1692
Francisco Dias Franco founded a chapel of Nossa Senhora do Amparo in Machico.
1919
Francisco Franco's maquette of the Zarco statue was exhibited in the municipal theatre of Funchal.
1934
The monument to João Gonçalves Zarco by Francisco Franco was solemnly inaugurated on the Avenida Arriaga in Funchal.