Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2022
Ramon Mujica Pinilla
The study of Peru’s Colonial Art presents challenging semantic and interpretative problems derived from the “hybrid” nature of its Christian iconography. Even though inspired in European visual models, religious Viceregal art developed new marginal readings of the Holy Scriptures serving a specific political and prophetic agenda. In this seminar we will address how baroque political theology was utilized by criollos, mestizos and native Indians to create a symbolic vocabulary that legitimized their ethnic and religious identity and thus prepared the ideological grounds for Peru´s political Independence.