La victoria de Cajamarca, Perú, a través de la pinceladura de la Capilla de la Soledad de Azpeitia. Análisis histórico y gráfico

Abstract

Nicolás Sáez de Elola, former captain of Pizarro in the Battle of Cajamarca and participant in the capture of the Inca Atahualpa, had necessarily be distinguished and remembered by an imperishable work. The Chapel of Solitude, his posthumous work, seemed the appropriate framework to exalt the courage and virtuosity of the man of action. As such, the scene of the heroic and allegorical victory that presides the north wall of the chapel, inserted into a suggestive triumphal arch, became the perfect vehicle for the transmission of the triumph. A triumph that, since it is contained in a burial site, and more specifi cally, in the mausoleum of the principal, would combine the most important victories of his life, military victory and the victory over death. Furthermore, the historical and graphic study reveals the proximity to existing imperial military representations.