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CUZCO:

THE

HISTORIOAL

AND

MONUMENTAL

CITY OP'

PERU

In the earthq'llake that destroyed Cuzco Mareh 31, 1650, the

Te1111ple and Con

ven•t w

ere b.áfdly damaged but afterward11 re-built

on their o.riginal

pla.n

The entrance to the Convent is particularly no.ted by its ril!ing

and narrow approach leading to a large ir.on gate and portico.

In it will be seen two rare paintings on the Conversion of the

In!!Mels.

the Portar '.s 1-0dge attention will be attr.aictad to a painting

depfoting tragical scenes of

the Martyr.

It lack.E

no details

according to the Peruvian artist l'elipe CO'ssfo.

Following

into the first

cfoister

th-ere is revealed

the

dazzled sight

marvelous archit-ectlLTe whieh in material

Colonial ar

is probaibly the best to be seen in Cuzco if not in

all America,-

M o.rish pa iq, a pi

Alhambra. as some say.

Seldoon :has isu

s~one

ever been done. The surface ap-

pearance seems

e.re

ptibl<y

'oined. Frai Antonio Blanco waa

the director of th

· :

rk.

The second e1ó1ster doe

would -seem

o h11

unknown arti

The idea ho

of ·ornamentation.

not offe,r the same grade of work.

com.menc-ed but not finished by an

-ever is siimiliar but it lacks the degree

Many paintings ornament the walls of the cloister and the

ceiling in part rest

red. The pain:rtings

reqnesent the Lile of

Sa.n Pedro Nolasco

(founder of the Order), done

in 1763 by

Ignacio Chaicón. Amon.g them will be found severa! notable for

conception and oompo·sition -

for example,

the .one reprel!ell'

ting

the Muerte del Samto.

Th·e Chapter sala is worthy of an in'8'¡>ec-tion · especiiaHy itt

woodwork and severa} ipaintin•gs of .much value.'

The stainvay to the cloister is of gorgeous

constru~ion.

One

central st.airway

º!

stone, with high -0.ecoraited ceilings, leads

to a spruc1ous landmg place, thence divides into two following

to t he seoond floor.

On enitering the higher cloister the-re will be seen two large

port.raits,

úchly carved frames, of the benefactors of the Cen·

yent~

don Diega Var1gas

Car.baja] and doña Usa.nda Loaiz11.

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