(Universidad EAFIT, 2021-12-15) Lozano Vásquez, Andrea; Zalamea Fajardo, Patricia; Universidad de los Andes; Universidad de los Andes
This article aims to show that the classical training received at the Seminary of San Antonio Abad in sixteenth-century viceregal Cusco was decisive in the allegorization processes that are at the foundation of the intellectual project of the azulejo cycle in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception of the Cathedral of Lima, conceived by Vasco de Contreras y Valverde, and of the panegyric to the Immaculate Conception written by Espinosa Medrano in 1670. Espinosa Medrano’s allegorizing is a particularly American reception of the Classical tradition.