Angel with Arquebus

Form

• Brooque spain because of the time period, the decorative designs and extravagance of clothing
• Master of Calamarca
• Artists don’t want to leave their wealthy patrons because of the established trust within them
• New and untrained artists have to step up and be the main art suppliers to the Americas
• Unfortunately these artists aren’t good
• A lot of grace and reminiscent of Mannerism
• Asexual body type

Function

• Inca and other indigenous tribes
• Catholicism is better than Protestantism
• Part of a series of portraits
• Need for the Catholics to defend their faith
• represents Catholic power over indigenous people
• Considered Concretism which is supposed to replace indigenous deities to promote Catholicism
• Traditional clothing
• Elongated figure
• These arms would probably go down to the persons feet
• Unnatural pose
• Wings in the background
• Large feathers that get larger as they go town

Content

• Angel name in upper corner
• Says “Fears God”
• Androgynous angel
• Stunningly attired
• Has celestial powers while also aristocratic and military
• Fashion is combo of Inca nobility and Europeans
• Feathers Inca, everything else European
• Firearms did not exist in Americas so natives associated them with the supernatural
• This gun didn’t make it until 15th c.

Context

• SPain in Peru
• Images widespread and popular
• Part of the counter-reformation war of the souls
• Used to give Christian faith more desirability than the indigenous practices
• Gave light to “violence is justified in defense of Catholic faith
• Lack of artistic talent

Learning Objective

17th c. Southern Baroque (New Spanish) Counter Reformation painting

Themes

Religion

Violence

Propaganda

Cross-cultural

Deities