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Painting (Paintings by Francisco Laso)

 

Art with the Peruvian imprint, to the service of evangelization.

Paintings in the Mannerist and Baroque styles and of the Cusco School .

The last room is devoted to the works of art of the Peruvian painter Francisco Laso. Artist born in Tacna in 1823, he spent his childhood and adolescence in Arequipa and he later traveled to Paris to study art. When he returned to Peru, he was captivated by the indigenous culture, which radically marked his artistic expression. He is considered to be the predecessor of Indigenism, a Peruvian artistic movement of the beginnings of the XX Century, which was in charge to revaluate this indigenous world, recreating by means of art.