La yunta
LocationPaseo de los Héroes Navales
DesignerIsmael Pozo Velit
MaterialBronze

La yunta, also known as El trabajo or Los bueyes, is a bronze sculpture in the Paseo de los Héroes Navales, Lima, Peru.[1][2][3]

Description

The sculpture represents the moment in which a farmer works the land with two yoked oxen and a plough. It is an indigenous motif that was commissioned by the Chinese colony in Peru, together with the sculpture Las llamas by Agustín Rivera, as a gift to the city of Lima for the fourth centenary of the Spanish foundation of Lima.[4][5]

It was located on the Paseo de la República in 1937, although successive reforms of the place made it lose the pedestal.[1]

On April 24, 2018, the sculptures of the Paseo de los Héroes Navales, including Las Llamas, were declared the Cultural heritage of Peru by the Ministry of Culture.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "La yunta". Grupo de Estudio sobre Arte Público en Latinoamérica.
  2. Lavarello Vargas de Velaochaga, Gabriela (2009). Artistas plásticos en el Perú: siglos XVI - XVII - XVIII - XIX - XX (in Spanish). G. Lavarello Vargas de Velaochaga.
  3. "La histórica escultura "La Yunta" fue garabateada por extraños". América Noticias. 2015-01-26.
  4. Castrillón Vizcarra, Alfonso (1991). Escultura monumental y funeraria en Lima (in Spanish). Banco de Crédito del Perú.
  5. Chuhue, Richard (2017). Capón. El barrio chino de Lima (PDF) (in Spanish). Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima. ISBN 9789972726156. OCLC 1126541508.
  6. "Resolución Viceministerial N.° 053-2018-VMPCIC-MC". Gob.pe. 2018-04-24.
  7. Bedoya Ramos, Daniel (2019-08-01). "La agonía del Paseo de los Héroes Navales: patrimonio sufre deterioro de monumentos". El Comercio.
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