viernes, 1 de febrero de 2008

Baroque-style paintings


These are just reproductions at the hotel, but they will give you an idea about baroque art in Cusco. Here is a Madonna-


And here's an angel, completely dressed up with Spanish baroque clothes and an arquebus in his hands. It is curious that and angel would have an arquebus, but these weapons were important to native painters, because their noise was like a thunder, one of the main Inka divinities.
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