The National Shield of Ecuador o Coat of Arms was officially adopted by the Congress on October 31, 1900achieving the presidential implementation of the General Eloy Alfaro on November 7, 1900. Days later, on December 5, the decree was published in the Official Gazette.
The artistic design of the current shield belongs to Pedro Pablo Traversari Salazar, establishing itself until in 1916 it was approved by the Ministry of Public Instruction. But this, in turn, is an inspiration for what is attributed to Jose Joaquin de Olmedoin 1845, with the colors light blue and white.
Traversari Salazar was born in Quito in 1874 and died in the same city in 1956.
He shone as a songwriter and bandleader. From his father, Pedro Pablo Traversari Brazanti, Italian, he inherited his musical gifts.
He studied music and declamation in Chile; when it was inaugurated National Conservatory of Music in Quito He held the chair and served as the director of the campus on several occasions.
In Riobamba, he was a professor at the Riobamba Academy of Fine Arts and in Guayaquil he taught at the Antonio Neumane Conservatory.
He directed military music bands and founded the Museum of Musical Instruments of the House of Ecuadorian Culture; In addition, he cultivated other branches of the fine arts and it is to him that the design and/or graphics of the Coat of Arms of our country is attributed.
Travesari wrote works like Illustrated method of musical calligraphy, Treatise on musicology, Practical treatise on general music theory, folklore treatise and others that remain unpublished. As a composer, he delivered hymns, marches, dances, school songs, etc., citing as an example: The son of the sun, the araucana, Andean glories, I sing to Bolivar, Hymn to May 24 Y cumanda.
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The use of the National Shield, whose day is celebrated annually on 31 October, is limited to official, public, educational, military and police entities. In educational institutions they can display it in a visible place in the classroom or offices, framed and with glass.
This is established by Resolution 24-047 of the National Congress, issued on March 13, 2003 and published in the Official Gazette 45 of March 21, 2003; as well as in the Regulation of Protocol and Military Ceremonial, Ministry of National Defense, Quito, Ecuador, August 2006. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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