The most anticipated statue. Marshal Antonio José de Sucre and his bronze sculpture in Quito

Abstract

This document covers the incidence of the bronze statuary in the patriotic ideology of the republican Ecuadorian society, for which, the representation of Marshal Antonio José de Sucre located in the Plaza de Santo Domingo in Quito has been selected. This artistic work was raised in 1892, and during the s. XIX, was one of the most anticipated works, since its realization, became a lethargic process, in which the exercise of political power was demonstrated, mainly, on artistic manifestations. The construction of this statue allows us to explain the official thinking, linked to the appropriation of the character, and having been the first - with these characteristics - to be made, allows us to assume that the image responded to the obligation to represent Sucre as a symbol of power. In this sense, the proposals made for the work and the public reaction are collected once the monument has been inaugurated, this being understood as a means of strategic communication influential in the collective social imaginary.