![]() ![]() These can be studied through a critical approach of the shaping of cultural memory and the preservation of the past conceived in the nineteenth-century and the beginning of the twentieth. This article studies the reasons that led to the official commissioning of these portraits by a conservative government and that are currently protected by national heritage laws because they were painted prior to 1920. Two of these notables were liberal Presidents of the Republic and three of them were generals fighting civil wars in liberal armies between 18. These paintings portray five liberal dignitaries from nineteenth-century Colombian history. At the Piedras del Tunjo Arqueological Park in Facatativá, Colombia, there is a particular rock shelter colloquially called “The President´s Rock” where visitors can find pre-Hispanic rock art that dates back 12,000 years and that coexists with a series of six oil portraits commissioned in 1915 to an unknown artist. ![]()
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