Our Lady of the Rosary
A Peruvian viceregal Rosary Virgin, now held in an Afro-Brazilian museum collection.
- Work
- Oil on canvas
- Artist / creator
- Anonymous painter, Viceroyalty of Peru
- Origin & date
- Peru, colonial period
- Held by
- Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Format
The full-resolution scan — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$24.00
The story
This Rosary Virgin, attributed to an unidentified painter working in the Viceroyalty of Peru, made its way into the collection of the Museu Afro Brasil in São Paulo — a museum built around the African and Afro-diasporic presence in Brazilian history, and a reminder that the Rosary devotion carried particular weight in Black Catholic confraternities across colonial Latin America.
The object's current home says as much about the afterlife of these images as their original commission does: devotional paintings moved, were re-collected, and took on new meanings in new institutional contexts long after the workshop that made them closed.
About this reproduction
- • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)’s open-access release.
- • Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. The heirloom frame is gold, under acrylic, with no mount.
- • Color-managed to the source scan.
- • Ships in 5–9 business days; satisfaction guarantee.
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