Friday, August 28, 2009

The School of Cuzco


I finally bought the painting that I wanted. It is influenced, by “The School of Cuzco”….In 1532 the Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, conquered the Peruvian empire of the Inka. Artist of post-conquest Cuzco, directed by the king of Spain to accept the Christian faith, combined European styles of painting and iconography with ancient Peruvian traditions which began to forge the Andean Colonial Painting of today….

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