Cupid de Perdição

“Amor de Perdição” (2012) by Francisco Simões, view from the northeast

Antiga Cadeia da Relação, today houses the Centro Português de Fotografia, view to the southeast

Largo Amor de Perdição, view to the northeast

Amor de Perdição is a statue by the Portuguese artist Francisco Simões that was installed in Porto in 2012 .

Simões' work is located on the southwest corner of Largo Amor de Perdição, the square in front of the former Antiga Cadeia da Relação state prison , on the four-lane Campo dos Mártires da Pátria, within sight of the Palácio da Justiça , facing the Jardim de João Chagas.

The statue shows an older man, fully clothed, embracing a naked younger woman, who is standing in his mighty robe and in turn, on tiptoe and slightly stretched, embraces him. The woman looks at the man, but the man looks past her on the right.

The motif is based on the Portuguese novel of the same name by Camilo Castelo Branco from 1862, which was first published in German in 1988 ( The Destiny of Love ) and was filmed in 1921, 1943, 1979 and 2008. Branco and his lover Ana Plácido had become inmates of the prison a few years earlier because of their love affair, where Branco also wrote his prison memories.

Coordinates: 41 ° 8 ′ 41.3 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  W.

Web links

• Cupid de Perdição. Visit Porto tourism portal of the city of Porto
• Fernanda Pantoja: Amor de Perdição. Details of the novel, in Portuguese

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rui Rio inaugurou estátua dedicada ao romance "Amor de Perdição". Jornal de Notícias , December 16, 2012 (Portuguese).
2. ↑ Camilo Castelo Branco in the Internet Movie Database (English)
3. ↑ Processo de Camilo e Ana Plácido é reaberto 158 anos depois no Museu Judiciário. Porto City Tourism Portal, October 11, 2019 (Portuguese).