A recovered sculptural group by Antonio Susillo: El grito de Independencia (1884)

Abstract

The paper studies a lost and recovered sculptural group, El grito de Independencia, modeled by Antonio Susillo in 1884. Once identified, the work proposes the study of the work through sources, and compositional, morphological, formal and stylistic analysis, elucidating the relationship between the literary contribution of the nineteenth-century poet Bernardo López García and the formal correspondences of a sculptor from the realism developed in Paris by Carpeaux and immersed in the most advanced trends of his time. The recovery of the sculpture is an important contribution to a sculptor as valued as lacking in systematic studies.