Architectural sculptor and illustrator.
His proposed 30-foot monument honoring Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes to be erected in Central Park was abandoned due to lack of funding. His Bust of Cervantes stood in the park for more than a quarter-century but was eventually removed.
He designed a 100-foot diameter fountain honoring Christopher Columbus to be erected in Central Park along 5th Avenue, but sculptor Gaetano Russo's Columbus Monument already was planned for nearby Columbus Circle.
Still proposing to honor Columbus, he was overlooked again: instead of an original work by Miranda, Central Park commissioned a copy of sculptor Jeronimo Suñol's Columbus statue in Madrid.
Following the Boston Public Library's 1896 rejection of Frederick William MacMonnies's nude sculpture Bacchante and Infant Faun, Miranda sculpted The Spirit of Research. Installed at the center of a fountain in 1898, it was removed by the 1920s.
King Alfonso XIII of Spain made him a Knight in 1890.
His proposed 30-foot monument honoring Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes to be erected in Central Park was abandoned due to lack of funding. His Bust of Cervantes stood in the park for more than a quarter-century but was eventually removed.
He designed a 100-foot diameter fountain honoring Christopher Columbus to be erected in Central Park along 5th Avenue, but sculptor Gaetano Russo's Columbus Monument already was planned for nearby Columbus Circle.
Still proposing to honor Columbus, he was overlooked again: instead of an original work by Miranda, Central Park commissioned a copy of sculptor Jeronimo Suñol's Columbus statue in Madrid.
Following the Boston Public Library's 1896 rejection of Frederick William MacMonnies's nude sculpture Bacchante and Infant Faun, Miranda sculpted The Spirit of Research. Installed at the center of a fountain in 1898, it was removed by the 1920s.
King Alfonso XIII of Spain made him a Knight in 1890.
Architectural sculptor and illustrator.
His proposed 30-foot monument honoring Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes to be erected in Central Park was abandoned due to lack of funding. His Bust of Cervantes stood in the park for more than a quarter-century but was eventually removed.
He designed a 100-foot diameter fountain honoring Christopher Columbus to be erected in Central Park along 5th Avenue, but sculptor Gaetano Russo's Columbus Monument already was planned for nearby Columbus Circle.
Still proposing to honor Columbus, he was overlooked again: instead of an original work by Miranda, Central Park commissioned a copy of sculptor Jeronimo Suñol's Columbus statue in Madrid.
Following the Boston Public Library's 1896 rejection of Frederick William MacMonnies's nude sculpture Bacchante and Infant Faun, Miranda sculpted The Spirit of Research. Installed at the center of a fountain in 1898, it was removed by the 1920s.
King Alfonso XIII of Spain made him a Knight in 1890.
His proposed 30-foot monument honoring Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes to be erected in Central Park was abandoned due to lack of funding. His Bust of Cervantes stood in the park for more than a quarter-century but was eventually removed.
He designed a 100-foot diameter fountain honoring Christopher Columbus to be erected in Central Park along 5th Avenue, but sculptor Gaetano Russo's Columbus Monument already was planned for nearby Columbus Circle.
Still proposing to honor Columbus, he was overlooked again: instead of an original work by Miranda, Central Park commissioned a copy of sculptor Jeronimo Suñol's Columbus statue in Madrid.
Following the Boston Public Library's 1896 rejection of Frederick William MacMonnies's nude sculpture Bacchante and Infant Faun, Miranda sculpted The Spirit of Research. Installed at the center of a fountain in 1898, it was removed by the 1920s.
King Alfonso XIII of Spain made him a Knight in 1890.
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