“The Mestizo Style Architecture of Colonial Peru”
Gauvin Bailey, Luce Visiting Professor in Scripture and Visual Arts, Boston University Department of Religion
This lecture will explore the estilo mestizo (“Mestizo Style”) school of architecture, which developed in the southern Andes during the last century and a half of colonial rule (1650-1800) in Latin America. Combining characteristics of European Renaissance and Baroque architecture with indigenous motifs, the style is a brilliant blend of Spanish colonial and indigenous forms. It is one of the most vigorous and original artistic styles ever to result from the meeting of two cultures.