Abstract

CAPA, Oscar Enriquez. THE BAROQUE IMAGE AS A STRATEGY OF SUBJECTION OF THE INDIGENOUS TO THE CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL POWER IN QUITO IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. THE CASE OF THE PAINTING HEALING OF A DEMONIZED INDIAN. Índex [online]. 2021, n.11, pp.39-51. ISSN 2477-9199.  https://doi.org/10.26807/cav.vi11.425.

This article studies the painting titled Healing of a demonized Indian … (1697-1706) by Miguel de Santiago in the context of indigenous evangelization in the second half of the seventeenth century. This image located in the church of Guápulo as part of the series “miracles of the virgin” offers the possibility of exposing two senses of the devotional purpose. On one hand, the painting condenses the imaginary about the extirpation of indigenous idolatry in the Andes as part of a set of resources destined for its indoctrination, and, on the other hand, the way in which the elites imagined the socio-political structure in Quito that would be made concrete through the implantation of a civil and moral government. From this double entry it is proposed to observe that this representation, although it arose from the broad counter-reformist project in America, responded to the local expression of a society trying to constitute its own form of power. I will contextualize this artwork, then analyze the pictorial language, and finally establish some inferences about the function of the image in the liturgical space.

Keywords : Baroque; Marian cult; religious art; indigenous evangelization.

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