RAFAEL SALAS (1824-1906)
Volcàn Rumiñahui (4,721 m - 15,489 ft)
Ecuador
In Vista del volcán Rumiñahui de la laguna de Limpiopungo, oil on canvas, Museo Arocena
The volcano
Rumiñahui (4,721 m - 15,489 ft) meaning in local language "stone eye", "stone face", "rock eye" or "rock face", is a dormant, heavily eroded stratovolcano. Situated in the Andes Cordillera mountains 40 km south of Quito, Ecuador, it is overshadowed by its famous neighbour Cotopaxi.
Rumiñahui has three peaks (as shown in the painting above) . The three high peaks are called Rumiñahui North (4,721 m), Rumiñahui Central (4, 631 m) and Rumiñahui South (4, 696 m).
The painter
Rafael Salas was an important Ecuadorian landscape and genre painter of nineteenth century South America neoclassicism. He was the last son of the famous Salas artists dynasty among which his half brother Ramon Salas ( 1815-1880), the fist professor a t Academy of fine Arts of Quito and responsive for the taste of Costumbrismo; and above all their father Antonio Salas (1795-1860) a colonial artist specialized in religious themes like La Muerte de San José and La Negacion de San Pedro in the Cathedral of Quito.
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