Editing Peru (section)

==== Colonial art ====
{{Main|Peruvian colonial architecture|Cusco School}}
[[File:Saint Joseph and the Christ Child - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright=.8|''Saint Joseph and the Christ Child'', Anonymous, [[Cusco School|Colonial Cusco Painting School]], 17th–18th century]]
Peruvian sculpture and painting began to define themselves from the [[Studio|ateliers]] founded by monks, who were strongly influenced by the Sevillian Baroque School. In this context, the stalls of the [[Metropolitan Cathedral of Lima|Cathedral]] choir, the fountain of the Main Square of Lima both by [[Pedro de Noguera]], and a great part of the colonial production were registered. The first center of art established by the Spanish was the [[Cuzco School]] that taught [[Quechua languages|Quechua]] artists European painting styles. [[Diego Quispe Tito]] (1611–1681) was one of the first members of the Cuzco school and [[Marcos Zapata]] (1710–1773) was one of the last.<ref name="Bayon" />

Painting of this time reflected a synthesis of European and Indigenous influences, as is evident in the portrait of prisoner Atahualpa, by D. de Mora or in the canvases of the Italians [[Mateo Pérez de Alesio]] and Angelino Medoro, the Spaniards Francisco Bejarano and J. de Illescas and the Creole J. Rodriguez.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, the [[Baroque]] and [[Rococo]] styles, with their heavy ornamentation and predominantly curved lines, also dominated the fields of architecture and [[plastic arts]], as for example on the walls of the [[Basilica and Convent of San Francisco, Lima|Monastery of San Francisco]] in Lima.