La yunta (sculpture) explained

La yunta
Location:	Paseo de los Héroes Navales
Material:	Bronze

La yunta, also known as El trabajo or Los bueyes, is a bronze sculpture in the Paseo de los Héroes Navales, Lima, Peru.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Description

The sculpture represents the moment in which a farmer works the land with two yoked oxen and a plough. It is an indigenous motif that was commissioned by the Chinese colony in Peru, together with the sculpture Las llamas by Agustín Rivera, as a gift to the city of Lima for the fourth centenary of the Spanish foundation of Lima.^{[4] [5]}

It was located on the Paseo de la República in 1937, although successive reforms of the place made it lose the pedestal.^[1]

On April 24, 2018, the sculptures of the Paseo de los Héroes Navales, including Las Llamas, were declared the Cultural heritage of Peru by the Ministry of Culture.^{[6] [7]}

See also

• Paseo de los Héroes Navales
  • Las llamas

Notes and References

1. Web site: La yunta . Grupo de Estudio sobre Arte Público en Latinoamérica.
2. Book: Lavarello Vargas de Velaochaga, Gabriela . Artistas plásticos en el Perú: siglos XVI - XVII - XVIII - XIX - XX . G. Lavarello Vargas de Velaochaga . 2009 . 978-9972-33-994-3 . es .
3. News: La histórica escultura "La Yunta" fue garabateada por extraños . 2015-01-26 . América Noticias.
4. Book: Castrillón Vizcarra, Alfonso . Escultura monumental y funeraria en Lima . . 1991 . es.
5. Book: Chuhue, Richard . Capón. El barrio chino de Lima . . 2017 . 9789972726156 . es . 1126541508 . 2023-02-09 . 2022-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220925065928/http://www.biblioteca.munlima.gob.pe/images/munilibros/MUNILIBRO02.pdf . dead .
6. Web site: Resolución Viceministerial N.° 053-2018-VMPCIC-MC . 2018-04-24 . Gob.pe.
7. News: La agonía del Paseo de los Héroes Navales: patrimonio sufre deterioro de monumentos . Bedoya Ramos . Daniel . 2019-08-01 . El Comercio.