Garcilaso de la Vega and the 'New Peruvian Man': José Sabogal's frescoes at the Hotel Cuzco

• Autores: Michael J. Schreffler, Jessica Welton
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 33, Nº. 1, 2010, págs. 124-149
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article examines the political tenor of Peruvian painter José Sabogal’s work at a late and relatively unexplored point in his career. It focuses on a series of previously unpublished frescoes he painted in 1945 at a state-run hotel in Cuzco, the Andean city that had been the centre of the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest. The study considers the historically themed frescoes in the context of the contentious political environment in which Sabogal designed and produced them and foregrounds their engagement with the discourses on national identity that competed for prominence in mid-century Peru.