Spirit of Sacrifice (The Alamo Cenotaph)
Artist: Pompeo Coppini
Category:
Downtown
Details:
sculpture in the round, marble-pink, granite
Dimensions: 60' x 58 x 13' base 1'7" x 58' x 13'6"
Date completed: 1939
Description:
"Spirit of Sacrifice" (Alamo Cenotaph) by San Antonio artist Pompeo Coppini is a memorial to the fallen Alamo heroes. It is a large rectangular shaft with a wedge at lower portion of the piece. It includes a large figure with two smaller figures huddled below to represent the spirit of the heroes rising from the dead.
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