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The Fallen Angel in Madrid’s Retiro

Титульна AI-ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. An invented bronze fallen angel fountain in an autumn park; symbolic illustration, not a photograph of Bellver’s monument.
«Падший ангел» у мадридському парку Ретіро / The Fallen Angel in Retiro Park, Madrid.
Підпис Рікардо Бельвера та дата 1877 на музейній версії твору / Bellver signature and 1877 date on the museum version, not the Retiro pedestal.
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Титульна AI-ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. An invented bronze fallen angel fountain in an autumn park; symbolic illustration, not a photograph of Bellver’s monument.

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In Madrid’s Retiro Park stands a fountain featuring Ricardo Bellver’s sculpture The Fallen Angel. The city’s monument catalogue dates the work to 1877 and its inauguration in the present setting to 1885. The 1922 date in a popular retelling does not match this history.

The sculpture depicts the fallen Lucifer with wings and a serpent rather than celebrating his victory. Its dramatic pose conveys humiliation and terror. The often-repeated claim that it is the world’s only monument to this figure should not be treated as an established art-historical record without comparison with other works.