Monumentos de cultura: testimonios de barbarie

for a long time images spoke to society about the past. paintings described different social groups' ways of life or moments like amien's siege. since the invention of photography the images of war didn't stand only for epic romances: photo could show the bare truth. the author proposes to look at a painting about the paraguayan war as a text, trought a semiotic aproach. this allow us to know painter's cultural context and his ideological views. to make this possible, the author compares the painting with a photo on the same topic.