Sacramento Del Bav[tis]mo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sacramento Del Bav[tis]mo
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses the Christian priests in the colonial government in Peru. This image depicts a priest on the right side of the image dressed in ecclesiastic adornments as he performs a baptism on an indigenous baby. A man on the left is illustrated holding the child as the priest pours the holy water over the head of the baby. The man in the centre is illustrated holding the Bible in his right hand and a candle in his left. The author explains that when a Christian native child receives the sacrament of baptism the people would hold great feasts and celebrations and offer gifts to the priests.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23573
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_23573_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Parish Priests; Baptism; Sacraments; Christianity; Government; Colonialism; Colonization; Indigenous Peoples