Peruvian colonial architecture

Cathedral of Cusco. Andean Baroque style of plateresque xiloformo

The Peruvian colonial architecture, developed in the Viceroyalty of Peru between the 16th and 19th centuries, was characterized by the importation and adaptation of European architectural styles to the Peruvian reality, yielding an original architecture.

Early academia has tended to view the Spanish architectural and religious takeover as complete and swift, but revisionist history emphasizes the lasting role of the indigenous in religious architecture.^[1]

The use of building systems as the quincha, the ornamentation of Andean iconography and solutions to give new forms to Peruvian viceroyal architecture an own identity.

Renaissance style

Cathedral of Lima with Renaissance

central doorway and towers

Torre Tagle Palace, with balconies in Mudéjar

style.

Presbyter Matías Maestro Cemetery

In the early days of the

Cathedral of Lima and the Casa de Pilatos. In Ayacucho

the facades of the churches of San Francisco and La Merced.

Baroque style

The

columns, pilasters, cornices, and a modification of the classical forms, the Greek columns lose their purity to wring, as thick snakes, its trunks to form Solomonic column

and ornaments acquired great exuberance.

A characteristic feature of this style is the

Cathedral of Cuzco (Andean Baroque), the churches of Santo Domingo and San Sebastián. In Arequipa the Church of La Compañía

.

Andean Baroque

During the late seventeenth and eighteenth century in the southern Andes (Southern

maskaypacha crown as well as native flora and fauna (Arequipa papayas and the Chiguanco thrush). It was created by primarily by indigenous sculptors, sometimes inspired by textile patterns. The new style appeared primarily on the stone carved facades of churches and palaces, first in Arequipa and later in the Lake Titicaca region and further south to Oruro and even into Chile. It was one of the most vigorous combinations of styles in all of colonial Latin America. The most important buildings are the Church of La Compañía and Puno Cathedral.^[2]

Churrigueresque baroque

It was the most ornate

Nuestra Señora de la Merced and San Agustín

.

Rococo

See also Rococo.

In the 18th century, with the introduction of the French Bourbon dynasty, came to Spain this style that was characterized by non-rounded balconies, the decrease of ornaments in the ornamentation in columns (these are less twisted) while the characteristics of the baroque are the use of curves and undulating lines. The characteristics of

Osambela House and Paseo de Aguas

, all located in Lima.

Neoclassical style

In the late 18th and early 19th century came the style called neoclassical, which was characterized by the dominance of a trend towards the return of the classic styles of Greco-Roman architecture (using Romanesque columns with Corinthian capitals and without ornamentation, straight lines and simplicity in them, in addition to triangular frontispiece).

It was as a reaction against the

Presbyter Matías Maestro Cemetery

.

Notes

^ Christopher Wang, "Colonial Architecture of the Viceroyalty of Peru: The necessary and continued role of the indigenous in Christianity." Accessed 13.08.2013.
^ Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru University of Notre Dame Press, 2010

External links

Colonial Architecture Project by Gauvin Alexander Bailey

[1] Christopher Wang, "Colonial Architecture of the Viceroyalty of Peru: The necessary and continued role of the indigenous in Christianity." Accessed 13.08.2013.

[2] Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru University of Notre Dame Press, 2010

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