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2 unusual facts about Quito School


Church and Convent of St. Francis

San Francisco houses over 3,500 works of colonial art, of varied artistic styles and techniques, most notably those of the famous Quito School of art, which had it genesis precisely here.

Quito School

The Quito School (Escuela Quiteña) is a Latin American artistic tradition that constitutes essentially the whole of the professional artistic output developed in the territory of the Royal Audience of Quito — from Pasto and Popayán in the north to Piura and Cajamarca in the south — during the Spanish colonial period (1542-1824).


Caspicara

Manuel Chili (ca. 1723, Quito - 1796) — known as Caspicara (“wooden face”) — was an Ecuadorian sculptor who exemplified the Quito School movement of the 18th century Andes.


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