La Maternidad, Oviedo

Maternity is an urban sculpture by Fernando Botero located in the Plaza Escandalera, in the city of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.

The urban landscape of this city is adorned by sculptural works, generally commemorative monuments dedicated to important people at first, and more purely artistic since the late twentieth century. The sculpture is made of bronze and is dated 1989, although it was installed in 1996.

The work, a modern version of a mother and her iconography, presents a seated woman with a child on one of her thighs. The figure, which measures almost two and a half meters, and weighs 800 kilograms, has a dark gray color and exposes the rounded and obese forms characteristic of the Colombian sculptor, author of the same.