The work is a beautiful portrait of the most famous mestizo Virginal advocation in the Peruvian Viceroyalty, and one of the most popular ones throughout South America, Our Lady of Copacabana. 

Looking at the way the iconography of this revered Marian figure evolved, we see how depictions of her, following a process involving the devotional redefining of Pre-Hispanic icons, were no more than an adaptation of the Virgin of Candelaria, to which her own attributes and meanings were ascribed. 

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