21 October 2010

Nuestro Señor de La Mancha

In honor of the Festival Internacional Cervantino, currently in its 38th year, and in honor of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, whose celebration needs no occasion, the following:



Detail of sculpture in Alcalá de Henares, Cervantes' birthplace. [Source]


If by chance these gentlemen should wish to know who is the valorous one that served them so, let your worship tell them that it is the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, who is otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Figure.


Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Alcalá de Henares



Madrid, 1979 [Source]



Detail of the above.



Don Quixote of Havana



Detail of above.



Don Quixote, relief by Anna Hyatt Huntington, Audubon Terrace, New York



Guanajuato, Mexico, home of Cervantino. (The full sculpture includes Sancho Panza, but there seems to exist no good photo of the entire thing online.)