Ramon Elias Mujica Pinilla is a Peruvian anthropologist and served under three Presidents as Director of the National Library of Peru.
Se llama Ramon He has written books on the mystical intellectual sources of St. Rose of Lima, the first saint of the Americas, and on the political dimensions of her Creole and Indian cult that prepared the ground for Peru's political Independence from Spain in 1821.
This angelic visionary iconography explained the Spanish Conquest of Peru in prophetic terms.
Mujica coordinated the two volume set on "El Barroco Peruano" published by the Banco de Credito del Peru and the collection of essays "Vision y Simbolos: del virreinato criollo a la Republica Peruana", that includes contributions by David Brading, Teresa Gisbert de Mesa and Natalia Majluf, among others.
He has been appointed to be a board member of the Instituto Cervantes in 2014 filling a seat vacated by Isabella Allende.