From martyr hero to victorious hero: Peruvian intellectuals in front of the Francisco Bolognesi monument and the thesis of a primitive project for the monument

• Autor: Dias Scarelli, Rafael
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/21505
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/revistaira/article/view/21505
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Francisco Bolognesi monument; Public monuments; Intellectuals; Artists; Nationalism; Lima; XX century; Monumento de Francisco Bolognesi; Monumentos públicos; Intelectuales; Artistas; Nacionalismo; Siglo 20

The positions of Peruvian intellectuals and artists upon the monument to Colonel Francisco Bolognesi are presented in two contexts separated for nearly half a century: the inauguration in 1905 and the replacement of the statue of the hero in 1954. The aim is to understand how the change of sen sibility from martyr to victorious hero was developed with respect to the colonel of Arica, which legitimized the substitution of the sculptural work. It is proposed that the image of hero-martyr represented in the first sculpture had already became unwanted in the middle of the last century, because of the definition of the “captive” provinces of Tacna and Arica dispute, the Peruvian military triumph against Ecuador (1941) and the promotion of Bolognesi as a patron of the Peruvian Army. In addition, the widespread thesis that therewas an “primitive project” for the monument, by the Catalan sculptor Agustín Querol, which did not materialize due to the intervention of the organising committee of the competition, is refuted. An interpretation is sought regarding the emergence and dissemination of the “primitive project” in the light of the context of the 1950s, when an attempt was made to disqualify the sculpture made by Querol.