José González y Giménez y el monumento a Sucre en Quito

Abstract

This work centers on the study of the monument dedicated to Antonio José de Sucre, ordered by the Municipality of Quito from the Spanish sculptor José González y Giménez in 1874. This is an analysis of the iconography of the monument, its conception, and the vicissitudes and problems that, throughout almost a decade, threaten the monument to preventing it from seeing the light in its definitive form, being replaced by a plaster cast of the main group. The polemic caused immediately after its public exhibition, is also considered a representation of the liberation of Ecuador to hands of Sucre in such a way that it upset the Spanish minister in Quito, who maintained a debate with the Ecuatorian writer Juan León Mera.