Monumento a Luis de Góngora y Argote
| POET AND DRAMATIST |
| 16TH-17TH CENTURY |
| MODERN ERA |
| SITUATION: PLAZA DE LA TRINIDAD |
The monument to Luis de Góngora y Argote is the work of Valencian sculptor Amadeo Ruiz Olmos. The rounded bronze sculpture represents a full-length portrait of the poet and rests on a grey granite pedestal. Located in the Plaza de la Trinidad, in front of the Trinidad church, it pays tribute to one of the greatest Spanish literary figures of all time.
Luis de Góngora y Argote (Cordoba, July 11, 1561 - May 23, 1627), was a Spanish Golden Age poet and playwright, and the greatest exponent of the literary genre known in the following centuries as Culteranismo or Gongorismo. His works spawned a plethora of imitators in Europe and America over the years and, as if he were a classical Latin author, were the subject of exegisis (critical analysis) in his own era.
