Description

Painting in the Andean Baroque style of the Cuzco school.
The Cusco School (Escuela cuzqueña) or Cuzco School, was a Roman Catholic artistic tradition based in Cusco, Peru (the former capital of the Inca Empire) during the colonial period, in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. It was not limited to Cusco alone, but spread to other cities in the Andes, as well as present-day Ecuador and Bolivia.

Many paintings from the colonial Cusco school are preserved, most of them currently in Cusco, but also in other areas of Peru, in the city of Calamarca (Bolivia) and in museums in Brazil, the United States and England.