{"id":5269,"date":"2012-09-22T14:07:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T19:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2022-11-29T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T01:43:10","slug":"the-cusco-school-of-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2012\/the-cusco-school-of-painting\/5269\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cusco School of Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have you ever heard of the famous depiction of  Christ’s Last Supper in the Cathedral of Cusco, where the main dish is a roasted guinea pig?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Have you ever heard of that painting described as being Cuzco Baroque?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it’s not. Marcos Zapata painted his<\/em> Last Supper in 1748, nearly a half century after the Baroque period had ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Last Supper by Marco Zapata (1748) most famous for the guinea pig featured as the main course.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There’s a popular tendency to incorrectly lump all Cusco School (Escuela Cuzque\u00f1a) of painting into that one particular historic category of art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a very brief rundown, with examples, of the main periods of the Cusco School, famous for the intertwining of Catholic themes with Andean iconography with the intent to evangelize native communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mannerist: 1580-1660<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bernardo<\/a>
Bernardo de Bitti – The Coronation of the Virgin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Baroque: 1660-1700<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Diego<\/a>
Diego Quispe Tito – The House of Nazareth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Desposorio<\/a>
The Marriage of the Virgin – Anonymous <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Syncretist: 1700-1790<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Marco<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pintura Popular: 1700-1790<\/strong>
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\"\"<\/a>
Tadeo Escalante – Hell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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