''El último cartucho'' (

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for "The Last Cartridge") is an 1899

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vian

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

Juan Lepiani José Juan de Dios Mateo Osbaldo Botaro Lepiani Toledo (20 September 1864, Lima – 28 November 1932, Rome) was a Peruvian painter. He is primarily known for historical and Patriotism, patriotic scenes; notably those related to the War of the Pac ...

. It forms part of the collection of the

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The painting depicts a chapter of the

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, where the armies of Chile and Peru fought in the

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, where

Francisco Bolognesi Francisco Bolognesi Cervantes (4 November 1816 – 7 June 1880) was a Peruvian military colonel. He is considered a national hero in Peru and was declared patron of the Army of Peru by the government of Peru on 2 January 1951. Early life and ...

, commander of the

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, was

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. Bolognesi's rejection of a surrender, which preceded the battle, is depicted in Lepiani's 1891 painting ''

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''. The painting process carried out by Lepiani involved him travelling to the Rock of Arica to take photographs and notes of the area, exhume bodies and to speak with former soldiers and local Peruvians. It was first shown on that same year at the Casa Dubois, located at the corners of

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and Jirón Moquegua in

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. Then president

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was impressed by the work, and ordered that it be used at schools to teach about the event.

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