Accenting Carlos Thays Botanical Garden are about 30 sculptures. Most are reproductions of famous art. This charismatic piece titled Canto de la Cosechadora (Song of the Harvester) portrays a maiden carrying an autumn crop. The marble original is attributed to Antonio Canova (1757 – 1822), an anclaimed Neoclassical sculptor from Venice. Other works you will recognize in Jardín Botánico are Venus de Medici and the Capitoline Wolf showing Romulus and Remus being nursed by a shewolf.
