Emanuel Jorge da Silva Santos was born on 20 November 1976 and is an artist from Madeira, Portugal.
14 Facts About Emanuel Santos
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In 2017, Santos became leader of Canical Parish Council, when his centre-left PS party won the local election.
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Emanuel Santos's works are installed several public locations on Madeira.
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In 2016, Emanuel Santos created a monument to fishermen in the port of Canical.
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In 2018, Bleacher Report commissioned Emanuel Santos to create a second bust of Ronaldo.
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The original bust was said by Emanuel Santos to take between two and three weeks to complete, and was "not as simple as it seems" to create.
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Emanuel Santos based his work on photographs of Ronaldo, who was unavailable to model in person.
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Emanuel Santos only asked for some wrinkles that gave him a certain expression in his face when he's about to laugh to be changed.
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Emanuel Santos said it made him look older and asked for it to be thinned out a bit to make it smoother and more jovial.
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Emanuel Santos has defended his work and said that he, Ronaldo, Ronaldo's mother, and the airport chiefs who commissioned the work were happy with the final product.
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Emanuel Santos called the sculpture "pretty creepy" and compared the depiction of Ronaldo to the courtroom sketch of Tom Brady, which received a similar reaction in 2015.
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In 2018, Bleacher Report commissioned Emanuel Santos to create a "more traditional interpretation" bust of Ronaldo with a "more serious" demeanor.
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Emanuel Santos has said the reception his first bust received had a negative impact on him and his family.
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In 2017, the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power commissioned Emanuel Santos to make a bust of Ronaldo's then team-mate, the Welsh footballer Gareth Bale.