Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Play Which of These is not Like the Other!





If you can tell the difference between the locals and the gringos in the first two pictures, you also begin to understand the difference in social situation of these two groups. The third picture is of the Last Supper painted by a Cusco artist not long after the Conquest. He added a few points of subterfuge. Note the cuy served as the main course as well as the Andean cheese and vegetables. You might also not that Judas, seated in the front right holding his ill-gotten gains, is of much darker skin than the others. Apparently the artist used the face of Francisco Pizzaro as the model for JudasĀ“face. The final picture shows a fresco from a church in Pisac in which Andean themes are included by the church to attract converts. Note the woman and boy in native dress and that the boys holds a baby llama instead of a baby sheep.

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