The Andean hybrid baroque
Subtitle: convergent cultures in the churches of colonial Peru
By: Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Series: History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds; History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9780268022228
Subjects: Peruvian Sculpture; Architectural Decoration and ornament; Baroque Architecture; Baroque Decoration and ornament; Spanish colonial Architecture; Church architecture; Themes, motives; Baroque Sculpture
Description: "In spite of decades of scholarship, our understanding of the Andean Hybrid Baroque and its churches has been severely handicapped by a lack of archival documentation and consistent stylistic analysis ... I wrote this study specifically to fill these gaps." -- The Introduction. "The Andean Hybrid Baroque is the first comprehensive study of the architecture and architectural sculpture of southern Peru in the late colonial period (1660s-1820s), an enduring and polemical subject in Latin American art history. In the southern Andes during the last century and a half of colonial rule, when the Spanish crown was losing its grip on the Americas and Amerindian groups began organizing into activist and increasingly violent political movements, a style of architectural sculpture emerged that remains one of the most vigorous and creative outcomes of the meeting of two cultures.^

The Andean Hybrid Baroque (also known as "Mestizo Style") was a flourishing school of carving distinguished by its virtuoso combination of European late Renaissance and Baroque forms with Andean sacred and profane symbolism, some of it originating in the pre-Hispanic era. The Andean Hybrid Baroque found its genesis and most comprehensive iconographical expression in the architecture of Catholic churches, chapels, cloisters, and conventual buildings." "Drawing on hundreds of primary documents and on ethno-historical and anthropological literature that has rarely been applied to an art-historical subject, Gauvin Alexander Bailey provides the most substantial study of Colonial Peruvian architecture in decades. The product of six years of photographic surveys in Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina, as well as research in governmental and ecclesiastical archives in Latin America and Europe, Bailey's richly illustrated study examines the construction history and decoration of fifty churches.^

It offers a fundamentally new understanding of the chronology, regional variations, and diffusion of the Andean Hybrid Baroque style, as well as a fresh interpretation of its relationship to indigenous Andean culture." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-620) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Mestizo style" and Andean hybrid baroque; title: The great debate : Andean hybrid baroque and Latin American art history; title: Origins : Jesuit Arequipa (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries); title: The Arequipa region and Cotahuasi : Dominicans and other orders (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries); title: Caylloma I : eighteenth-century Colca Valley and Tisco; title: Caylloma II : late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Colca Valley and Cotahuasi; title: Jesuit Collao : the reduction of Juli and the origins of Collavino Andean hybrid baroque (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries); title: Non-Jesuit Collao in the eighteenth century I; title: Non-Jesuit Collao in the eighteenth century II and the intermediate zone; title: The outliers : Potosí and Northern Collao in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; title: Chaos and order in the land of the Chunchos and the realm of Lord Yucyuc.