Description:
The Andean Hybrid Baroque is the first comprehensive study of the architecture and architectural sculpture of Southern Peru in the late colonial period (1660s-1820s).
Brief description:
Gauvin Alexander Bailey is professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art, King's College, University of Aberdeen. He is the author of a number of books, including Art of Colonial Latin America and Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773.
Review Quotes:
"Gauvin Alexander Bailey's The Andean Hybrid Baroque is a magnificent and ambitious study that not only covers an important geographic area of the southern Andes but also encompasses, in an informative and ordered style, a complex and dense constellation of pre-Hispanic and European cultural references in constant change." --Ramón Mujica Pinilla, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Peru