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Diego Quispe Tito
Diego Quispe Tito (1611-1681) was a Peruvian painter. He is considered the leader of the Cuzco School of painting.Bethell, Leslie. The Cambridge History of Latin America, Cambridge University Press (1995), p.742. ISBN 0521245168.
The son of a noble Inca family, Quispe Tito was born in Cuzco, and worked throughout his life in the district of San Sebastian; his house is still extant, and shows his coat of arms on its door. His earliest signed painting is an Immaculate Conception from 1627, gilded in a fashion typical of the Cuzco school. The work's elongated forms reveal a knowledge of Mannerism; where ...
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