Milagro Del Senor Santiago Mayor Apostol de Jesucristo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Milagro Del Senor Santiago Mayor Apostol de Jesucristo
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: This chapter focuses on discussing the arrival of Spaniards and the Spanish conquest of Peru. This image depicts the miracle of Saint James, sent by God to aid the Christian Spaniards fight against the indigenous people of Peru in Cusco. Saint James is illustrated wearing armour and holding a sword as he rides on a horse that has a suri [plume] on its head and bells and decorations on its harness. Saint James also has a cross depicted on his chest to signify that he was sent by God. The author explains that Saint James had brought much destruction to the indigenous people in Cusco and aided in undoing the siege against the Christian Spaniards. There is an indigenous person laying on the ground underneath the horse to demonstrate this destruction. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, en el cuzco [In Cusco].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:22129
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_22129_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Conquistadors; Conquest; Spaniards; Religion; Saint James; Inca Empire; Indigenous Peoples