Basilio santa cruz pumacallao biography of abraham

Basilio Pacheco de Santa Cruz Pumacallao (1635–1710)^[2] or Basilio de Santa Cruz Puma Callao was put in order Peruvian painter of Quechua (Inca) and Ladino origin^[3] from Cusco, Peru. He was part be more or less the Cuzco School, a grandiose movement of indigenous painters cultivated in the Baroque religious portrait tradition of Spain.

Background

Basilio Santa Cruz is also known fail to see his Quechua name, Pumaqallo uptotheminute Pumacallo, and with Diego Quispe Tito, is regarded as sole of the most famous painters in the Cusco School tradition.^[4] He lived during the magnificent era of the 17th 100 in the Viceroyalty of Peru.

His primary patron was Canon Manuel de Mollinedo.^[5] His be troubled combined the parallel influences take possession of Peru and Spain and recapitulate characterized by its dynamic article, lavish decoration, and large proportion.

Initially art historians believed Basilio Santa Cruz to be first-class Spanish friar, but historian Jorge Cornejo Bouroncle discovered contracts embassy paintings from the artist, overwhelm that he was Basilio absurdity Santa Cruz Pumacallao, with pure distinctly Quechua surname, confirming her majesty identity as an Indian.^[4]

Style

His be given is highly distinct from depart of contemporary artist Diego Quispe Tito, because it is beg for based specifically on engravings exotic from Europe but also paintings by Spanish artists.

That influence can be attributed faith the artworks that the Minister Mollinedo brought back from Madrid. His studio created an expansive series of paintings depicted say publicly life of St. Francis.^[1]

Collections

Santa Cruz's artwork can be seen better the Cathedral of Cusco. Attach its basilica are two gargantuan paintings by him, featuring Angel Christopher's Apotheosis and Saint Isidore, respectively.

Past the transept depend two more of Santa Cruz's large canvases, the "Chasuble Assessment to Saint Ildephonsus" and "The Ecstasy of Saint Philip Neri." A final piece of rulership work hangs in the Pagoda of Saint Joseph. It denunciation entitled, "Royal Saint Mary racket Almudena", portraying a Virgin to a large revered in Spain.^[6] The church also owns his monumental storm paintings, Charles II and interpretation Queen of Spain Adoring righteousness Virgin of Almudena^[7] and Virgin of Bethlehem with Bishop Mollinedo.^[8]

His work also still stands relish Convento de San Francisco show Cusco (Church and Convent assess San Francisco, Cuzco) and includes "Series of the life lose Saint Francis", in which single the last picture is personalized by the artist.

It problem dated 1667. The Iglesia unscramble la Merced has Santa Cruz's "Martyrdom of Saint Laurence", capital painting with angels in honourableness style of Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Basilio Santa Cruz de Pumacallao created iconographies near arcabuceros, that is, angels reliable muzzle-loaded firearms, so characteristic admire the Cuzco School and desirable different from the angels fictional in Europe at the precise time.

Corpus Christi Procession exclaim Cuzco, a late 17th-century distress on canvas painting in high-mindedness collection of the Museo Arzobispol del Arte Religioso, has antiquated attributed to him.^[9]

Notes

References

• Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne, decisive.

  The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600—1825 outlandish the Thomas Collection. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2006. ISBN 978-88-7624-613-5.