Source: WTL digitized slide photograph© on site in Montevideo, 1985.
Comments: The statue of José Artigas is in the center of Montevideo's Plaza de la Independencia. As you see, it is a typical heroic statue like most statues of this kind. The people are Montevideans on a wintry day.
Humanities topics: (A) What did José Artigas do that made him the father of Uruguayan independence from ... umm ... from precisely what political entity? (B) Compare and contrast this statue with similar statues dedicated to three other Latin American heroes on the conquest or independence on this Web textbook. (Note that item B is referring only to the statue itself as a humanities artifact.) (C) Briefly and succinctly, in one substantial paragraph, compare and contrast the person José Artigas with three other heroes of independence in Latin America. For a close-up view of the statue, see: => Montevideo #4a.