Nicholas Parkinson

Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (host 2023-2024)

FR

Biographie

Nicholas Parkinson is an art historian. His forthcoming book, Commemorating Military Defeats through Public Sculpture at the Turn of the 20th Century: The International Cult of the Lost Cause (Amsterdam University Press) examines the international trend of nations erecting monuments to defeat prior to World War I. He is a cofounder of the research network Global Peripheries.

Articles (1)

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La Cripta de los Héroes: Public Monuments and Hidden Agendas during Peru's Aristocratic Republic

La Cripta de los Héroes in Lima commemorates Peru’s disastrous conflict with Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1884). The monument’s origins reveal the interplay of nationalist aspirations and neocolonial dependencies, ultimately intertwining Peru's nation-building endeavors during the with French imperial ambitions.