Victor de Pol
Victor de Pol was an Italian sculptor and medallist most active in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Born in Venice, de Pol was a student of Giulio Monteverde. He immigrated to Argentina at the age of 22 and participated in the development of La Plata, designing Beaux-Arts-style sculpture for major public buildings. At least judging from his commissions related to President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, de Pol was socially well-connected.
From 1890 through 1895 de Pol returned to Europe. His return to Argentina brought the major work of his career, the 8-meter, 20-ton heroic quadriga on the Argentine National Congress building, 1906.
He is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery in the family vault of Aristóbulo del Valle, the great-uncle of de Pol's wife Asimilda del Valle.
Work
- bust of President Sarmiento, at the Sarmiento Museum, circa 1887
- sculpture of a condor atop a pylon at the tomb of Sarmiento, designed by Sarmiento himself, at La Recoleta Cemetery, 1888
- twelve facade busts of scientists, and the two sabertoothed Smilodon flanking the entrance to the La Plata Museum, 1888
- quadriga at the Argentine National Congress, circa 1906
- tomb of Archbishop Federico León Aneiros, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, inside the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral