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Spanish Coloninal Art from Peru
It is doubtful whether there is a more apt name for an exhibition on Peruvian viceregal art than The Angel and the Rose. The angel is an allusion to a host of figures that combined the beliefs of the Andean world with imported spiritual forms. Thus, the harquebus-bearing archangel becomes a synthesis of the cosmic and spirtual beliefs of both the Andean and the Spanish populations. It was represented in the figure of a winged guardian bearing heavenly orders.
The rose, on the other hand, is a reference to the patron saint of Lima, Isabel Flores de Oliva, whose part in the city's mystical history in the late 16th and early 17th centuries has been widely examined in literature and art. Better known as St. Rose of Lima, worship of her spread across the entire spectrum of viceregal society boosted by the influence of her legend. Everyone from the nobility to the lower classes saw St. Rose as a patron of Christian virtue. In turn, the different chapters of her life became the subject of painters and scupltors, for who she was a source of inspiration for images and landscapes rendered with consummate skill and clearly catechistic intent
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