Saint Rose of Lima, with the Christ Child
The Americas' first canonized saint, shown in intimate scale with the infant Christ.
- Work
- Oil on canvas
- Artist / creator
- Cusco School (anonymous)
- Origin & date
- Peru (Cuzco), c. 1680–1700
- Held by
- MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Format
The full-resolution scan — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$24.00
The story
Rose of Lima — a Peruvian-born Dominican tertiary canonized in 1671 — was the first saint of the Americas, and her cult spread through the viceroyalty with an intensity matched by few other colonial devotions. This canvas shows her in a quieter register than the grand civic processions her feast day inspired: seated close with the infant Christ, a rose (her namesake attribute) never far from the frame.
Producing a Lima-born saint at all was itself an assertion — proof that holiness could originate in the Americas, not just arrive from Europe. Cusco workshops, hundreds of miles from her actual shrine in Lima, painted her constantly.
A companion piece showing Saint Martín de Porres — the mixed-race Dominican lay brother venerated alongside her — remains unsourced; see DECISIONS.md.
About this reproduction
- • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, 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.
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