S[an]ta Obra de las Animas de Pvr[ga]torio · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: S[an]ta Obra de las Animas de Pvr[ga]torio
Subject: Christianity; Religion; Purgatory; Saints; Virgin Mary
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuzco; Cusco; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image depicts the soul of a man in purgatory. He is kneeling and is surrounded by fire and smoke. He has his hands together in prayer as an angel flies down to comfort the soul. The angel has one hand on the hands of the person and their other hand is putting a wreath over the person’s head. The angel is small and has wings on its back. The author urges people to pray for their loved ones who might be in purgatory. To do this, they must pray a half of a rosary, declare fifty hail Mary’s, five for the Lord, and then seven hail Mary’s again. This, according to the author, is what provide mercy to the souls in purgatory. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, “ánimas de purgatorio” [souls of purgatory].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23742
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_23742_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Christianity; Religion; Purgatory; Saints; Virgin Mary