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Artworks
The Triumph of the Immaculate Conception, Cuzco, 18th century
Oil on canvas
52 × 61 cmThis painting, commissioned by the Franciscan order, depicts the Triumph of the Immaculate Conception, with the Virgin Mary on a chariot surrounded by angels and prominent Franciscan theologians, including John Duns Scotus. The iconography, rooted in Roman and Baroque traditions, emphasizes the defense of Marian doctrine and the triumph over heresy. In the 1860s, Fray Mariano Sánchez de Mesa added an inscription granting indulgences under Archbishop José Sebastián de Goyeneche y Barreda, linking the painting to devotion, ecclesiastical authority, and the dogmatic proclamation of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in 1854.Read Essay