Monumento al Pueblo del Dos de Mayo de 1808

Al Pueblo del Dos de Mayo de 1808 is an instance of public art in Madrid, Spain. The sculptural work, created by Aniceto Marinas, is an homage to the role of the Madrilenian people during the 1808 Dos de mayo uprising. Originally sculpted in Rome in 1891, the sculptural group depicts a winged statue holding a banner that emerges on top of a soldier, a cannon, a small boy, and a number of corpses, male and female alike. The ensemble was inaugurated in the morning of 4 May 1908 at its original location on the Glorieta de Ruiz Jiménez, although the bronze statue was not ready and instead only the plaster model was installed, secretly disguised by a greenish paint.

The bronze statue, cast in Madrid by La Metaloplástica. Campins y Codina foundry, was put on the pedestal in October 1908. The cylindrical stone pedestal features an inscription reading 'al pueblo / del / dos de mayo / de / 1808' ('to the People of the 2 May 1808'), surmounted by a bronze rendition of the municipal coat of arms.

Over the years, the monument was moved to the Glorieta de Quevedo and, in the 1960s, to its current location in some gardens near the Plaza de España and, since the 1970s, also the Temple of Debod.

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