Title:

Pintura colonial cusqueña: el esplendor del arte en los andes/Paintings of Colonial Cusco: Artistic Splendor in the Andes

Author/ Editor:

Ananda Cohen-Aponte

with contributions by Raul Montero Quispe, Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank, and others

Publisher:

Haynanka Ediciones

Year:

2015

This book presents high-quality photographs of 158 Spanish colonial paintings produced in the Cusco region of Peru, spanning the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, featuring descriptions and critical commentary by specialists.  This book also includes special sections that offer an unparalleled glimpse into the splendor of two of the most famous series of paintings produced in colonial Cusco: the fifteen surviving canvases depicting Corpus Christi processions in the late seventeenth century and the Zodiac Series completed by the renowned indigenous painter Diego Quispe Tito.  This book also features some of the lesser-known canvases by the famous Italian émigré artist Bernardo Bitti, who worked in Peru in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.