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crown as well as native flora and fauna (Arequipa papayas and the Chiguanco thrush). It was created by primarily by indigenous sculptors, sometimes inspired by textile patterns. The new style appeared primarily on the stone carved facades of churches and palaces, first in
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Early academia has tended to view the Spanish architectural and religious takeover as complete and swift, but revisionist history emphasizes the lasting role of the indigenous in religious architecture.
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between the 16th and 19th centuries, was characterized by the importation and adaptation of European architectural styles to the Peruvian reality, yielding an original architecture.
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region and further south to Oruro and even into Chile. It was one of the most vigorous combinations of styles in all of colonial Latin America. The most important buildings are the
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was distinguished and characterized by his heavy ornamentation, of predominantly curved lines, giving an aspect of free movement. Predominant decorative elements in
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Christopher Wang, "Colonial Architecture of the Viceroyalty of Peru: The necessary and continued role of the indigenous in Christianity."
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In the 18th century, with the introduction of the French Bourbon dynasty, came to Spain this style that was characterized by non-rounded
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of the colonial period, from the 16th to mid-17th century. These are magnificent examples of this style in Lima facades of the
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and distinguished by the use of complicated and whimsical ornaments exaggerated, his advocate was a Spanish architect named
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During the late seventeenth and eighteenth century in the southern Andes (Southern
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The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru
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Architectural style combining European styles with the local Peruvian reality
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are the use of curves and undulating lines. The characteristics of
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In the late 18th and early 19th century came the style called
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the facades of the churches of San Francisco and La Merced.
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Cathedral of Cusco
Andean Baroque
plateresque xiloformo
references
inline citations
improve
introducing
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Viceroyalty of Peru
quincha

Cathedral of Lima
Renaissance

Baroque
Torre Tagle Palace
Mudéjar

neoclassical
Presbyter Matías Maestro Cemetery
Viceroyalty
Renaissance
Europe
Italian Renaissance
plateresque
Gothic
Romanesque
Arabic
Cathedral of Lima

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