The churches of colonial Lima, the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, were lined with confraternal chapels: richly decorated spaces, simultaneously intimate and public. In studying such chapels, art and architectural historians have centered the visual contributions of elite Spanish confraternities, while the chapels of their Black and Indigenous counterparts remain understudied, largely due to a lack of extant examples. Relying on Lima’s rich archival record, this talk will consider how Black confraternities acted as patrons who used their chapels, including the altarpieces and ephemeral altars of repose within them, to create vibrant artistic spheres within the sacred space of the church interior.
Presented by Ximena Gómez, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Image: Pancho Fierro, Negros Chalas en el Día del Corpus, c.1836, Watercolor on paper, Museo de Arte de Lima
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