Not
many tourists in Cuzco take any notice of baroque paintings there,
but it might be worthy as during the baroque era it was a centre of a
very characteristic school of painting. So called 'escuela cuzceña'
was especially known for monumental paintings of Our Lady with so many
robes that she looks like a mountain. Some writers today suspect that
this is a christianized version of Pachamama, Mother Earth, which is
still worshiped in many places in Peru. In any case these images are
common in Peru but it would be hard to find anything like this in
European baroque.
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