Sv S[enori]a Don Sebastian de Mendoza Obispo de la Gran Ciudad y Cauesa del Cuzco, Muy Cristiano, Justiciero, Amigo de Faboreser a los Pobres Yndios y Principales Deste Rreyno · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sv S[enori]a Don Sebastian de Mendoza Obispo de la Gran Ciudad y Cauesa del Cuzco, Muy Cristiano, Justiciero, Amigo de Faboreser a los Pobres Yndios y Principales Deste Rreyno
Subject: Bishops; Priests; Religion; Christianity; Colonialism; Colonization; Indigenous Peoples
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies
Description: This image depicts a bishop sitting in a chair in the centre of the page. He is dressed in ecclesiastic adornments and holding a long staff. The bishop is identified as Don Sebastian de Mendoza in the image’s title, but the author is referring to Fernando Gonzalez de Mendoza. He is illustrated pointing towards a priest who is kneeling before him. There is another priest standing behind the bishop looking into a book and holding his head up with his right hand. According to the author, this bishop was known to be a good, charitable man. The location of the image, “cuzco” [Cusco] is identified at the bottom of the page.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23631
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_23631_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Bishops; Priests; Religion; Christianity; Colonialism; Colonization; Indigenous Peoples

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