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Santiago Costa i Vaqué (1895-1984)
He was born in Mora de Ebro, and estudied in the Llotja School of Arts in
Barcelona. Having moved to Madrid to preform his military duties, he
shared his life with his couin Julio Antonio and, upon his death, he
further moved to Brazil and Argentina, where he built the monument to
Álvarez, the philantropist.
He exhibited in Madrid in 1925 at the National
Library thanks to the support of Julio Antonio's mother and the scupltor
Benlliure. He built a monument to Julio Antonio in Mora. There is also a
monument by him in Madrid, dedicated to Santiago Costa, in the
Villanueva Sq.
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