Lima
Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...
, 1916 - Lima, 1982) was a
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
vian sculptor. Along with
Joaquín Roca Rey
Joaquín Roca Rey (January 27, 1923, Lima – 2004) was a Peruvian sculptor. Along with Cristina Gálvez, Jorge Piqueras and Juan Guzmán he has been called one of the most important Peruvian sculptors of the twentieth century. His work shows t ...
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Jorge Piqueras
Jorge Piqueras (18 July 1925 – 2 October 2020) was a visual artist born in Peru and with Peruvian and Spanish nationality. Jorge Piqueras is recognized as one of the most important Peruvian artists of the twentieth century. Among contemporary Lat ...
and Juan Guzmán she has been called one of the most important Peruvian sculptors of the twentieth century.
Early life
Cristina was the daughter of Cristina Mendoza y de la Barrera de Gálvez and José Roberto Gálvez y Chipoco. Don Jose was the brother of don Luis Gálvez Chipoco, a renowned athlete and stadium name sake, her uncle Pedro Gálvez Chipoco was the owner of th Gálvez Chipoco house a historic landmark in Barranco. Cristina's paternal grandfather was the renowned 19th century Barranquino philanthropist don Pedro Alcántara Galvéz y Martínez-Carrasco, first owner of the Galvéz y Martínez-Carrasco ranch in Plaza Espinoza de Barranco.
Relatives of Cristina Gálvez include, Michael Sayman Gálvez,
Jorge del Castillo
Jorge Alfonso Alejandro del Castillo Gálvez (born 2 July 1950) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. In his career, he has served in the now abolished Peruvian Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 1992, in the unicameral Congress of the Republi ...
France
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and
Belgium
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, she learned from a very young age the great transformations developed in Europe prior to World War II. Her first professional studies, in the 1930s, were in workshops of renowned European artists such as Mauride in Paris and Van der Stecken in
Brussels
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whose common denominator was based on technical demand and the promotion of creative freedom. In these workshops she will get interested in drawing, but it will be in the study of Parisian post-Cubist André Lothe - who used to infuse a certain constructive rigor in his students - where he will consolidate his trade. On her return to Peru, in 1936, she mets the group of artists known as "The independents" among whom Ricardo Grau, Macedonio de la Torre,