Colombia: 'Passage of the Liberator's Army through the Paramo de Pisba' (Paso del ejército del Libertador por el Páramo de Pisba). Painting by Francisco Antonio Cano (1865-1935), 1922, Coleccion Museo Nacional de Colombia

Francisco Antonio Cano (November 24, 1865 - May 10, 1935) was a Colombian engraver, painter, sculptor and writer from Antioquia, famous for his works where he portrays the cultural identity of the country and region.

One of Cano's best known works is 'Horizons', which depicts the beginning of the colonization of Antioquia (1913) that took place during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his later years he was also a professor and late director of the School of Fine Arts in Bogotá.

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