Memory and Pain of the Witnesses of the Pacific War and their Sculptural Proposals to Commemorate the Fallen Heroes. Peru 1883-1897

Abstract

This article analyses the first eleven projects for monuments dedicated to the Peruvian heroes of the Pacific War (1879-1883), proposed in the early post-war period for the department of Lima and those in the north of the country (1883-1897). These projects were the mournful materialisation of the feeling of mourning experienced by the generation that witnessed the conflict. These memorials sought to perpetuate the collective gratitude to the heroes who had died and to narrate the events of the wartime catastrophe, while they were still suffering the ravages of the conflict.