A Portrait of Engineer Francisco Javier Cisneros by the Artist Francisco Antonio Cano: Approach to a Historiographical Review

The choice of an oil portrait of engineer Francisco Javier Cisneros represented by the artist Francisco Antonio Cano is intended to obtain and activate, in its documentary, historical and artistic context, identity key points to prove its worth as a cultural interest good at the regional and national levels, not only for what the image of this famous public figure has represented in the genesis and further development of the railway industry, but also, and especially, because of its value closely linked to other cultural, artistic, imaginative expressions, as well as other intangible manifestations that accornpanied the Antioquenian railway culture, providing, on the way, symbolic value contents and meaning that become present memory and identity.