Cuzco School; XVIII century.

Cuzco School; XVIII century.
"Virgin with child".
Oil on canvas.
Measurements: 80 x 53 cm; 92 x 65 cm (frame).

During the Spanish colonial domination, a mainly religious painting was developed, destined to Christianize the indigenous peoples. The local painters had as a model the Spanish works, which they followed literally in terms of types and iconography. The most frequent models were the harquebusier angels and the triangular virgins, however, in the first years of the 19th century, already in times of independence and political opening of some of the colonies, several artists began to represent a new model of painting with its own identity.