PAINTINGS OF COLONIAL CUSCO

This book presents full color, high quality photographs of 158 works of art in large-scale format, divided into various sections that correspond to recurring themes and iconographies that appear in colonial paintings of the Cusco region. This book also includes special sections dedicated to a range of themes, including the famous series of fifteen paintings form the late 17th century depicting the celebration of Corpus Christi in Cusco. The Zodiac Series by the renowned indigenous painter Diego Quispe Tito is reproduced here in full, providing the reader with the first publication to reproduce the entire sequence This book also featueres unpublished paintings by the Italian emigre artist Bernardo Bitti, who worked in Peru during the early 17th century. The final pages of the book establish thematic continuities among different colonial Andean paintings, such as the indigenous presence in religious art; genealogical trees and lineages; landscapes and the natural world; and representations of the human figure in colonial painting.