Agustí Querol Subirats

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Partial view of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in Madrid. The allegoric sculptural group La Gloria y los Pegasos ("Fame and Pegasus") by Querol Subirats

[Domingo] Agustí Querol Subirats (or Agustín Querol y Subirats) (May 17, 1860 — December 14, 1909) was a Spanish sculptor of Catalan extraction, who was born in Tortosa, Catalonia.

Born to a poor family, he was educated under Ramón Cerveto Bestraten (1829-1906). At the age of 18, he left his job at his father’s bakery and moved to Barcelona, where he worked as an apprentice at the studios of Domingo Talarn and of the Vallmitjana Brothers. He also attended sculpture classes at the Escuela Provincial de Bellas Artes (called colloquially “la Lonja”). He studied dissection and anatomy at the Hospital de la Santa Cruz in Barcelona.

Based in Madrid from 1890, he was responsible for many monuments, sculptures, and project proposals.^[1] He also worked as a businessman, dealing in Carrara marble; he was involved in art expositions; he wrote literary pieces under the pseudonym El Plutarco del Pueblo, the "People's Plutarch"; he served as vice-director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Madrid (1892-1895); he was a Conservative deputy to the Cortes (for Roquetes); and was a man about town.

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He died in Madrid.^[2]

He left unfinished monuments in Tortosa, Buenos Aires, Guayaquil, and Montevideo, which were later completed after his death. He is buried in San Justo in Madrid.^[3]