Mário Cravo Júnior

Due to Cravo Júnior's mother liking literature and poetry, she was responsible for his first contact with books.

During the same time period, despite having built an observatory on a farm his father bought in a rural part of Bahia state, he lost his passion for astronomy when he went to college to study engineering.

He later studied with Ivan Meštrović in sculpting at the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, later completing works in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village with Jacques Lipchitz.

He has also trained artists such as Agnaldo Dos Santos, a renowned Black Brazilian sculptor in Salvador who won several prizes in his lifetime.

[5] This work was ordered by then-mayor Antônio Carlos Magalhães, and was constructed out of fiberglass in a metal cast.

[14] He also constructed the Orfeu statue in front of the Caramuru Building,[15] as well as Cruz Caída, which memorializes the Old Cathedral of Salvador, which was demolished in the 1930s.