Ayacucho mansion

José Sabogal, who served as the director of the National School of Fine Arts and was a champion of the artistic movement known as Indigenismo, made many engravings using the woodcut technique. Through this technique, the artist sought to endow his works with a distinct kind of force and atmosphere.
In the work “Ayacucho mansion”, we are presented with a depiction of an old building, located on one corner of the main square, in the city of Ayacucho. The house has a pitched roof, portals around the lower floor, and wooden balconies on the upper floor. On one of the balconies, we can make out the presence of a lone woman. The stonework of the square tells us that the artist visited the city many years ago, when the main streets were all cobbled.