The Cusco School's named hands
Quispe Tito & the Masters
Most Cusco School painting is anonymous — workshop production, unsigned. A handful of names survive: Diego Quispe Tito, an Inca nobleman who ran the largest studio in the city and painted the zodiac onto the walls of Cusco Cathedral; Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, his contemporary; Bernardo Bitti, the Italian Jesuit who taught the first generation. Their surviving, attributed work is the closest thing this tradition has to auteurs.
Saint Bonaventure and Saint Anthony of Padua
A rare signed-attribution Cusco School work, by one of its few named masters.
Seated Madonna with the Graduation of the García Brothers
A documented Marcos Zapata workshop piece — the master behind Cusco Cathedral's own Last Supper.
Immaculate Virgin, Victorious over the Serpent of Heresy
A second attributed work by Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao — militant Counter-Reformation theology in gold.
Saint Christopher
A rare attributed work by Melchor Pérez Holguín, Bolivia's own great colonial painter.