Of signatures and status: Andrés Sánchez Gallque and contemporary painters in early colonial Quito

• Webster, Susan V. ^[1]
  1. [1] College of William and Mary
• Localización: The Americas: A quarterly review of inter-american cultural history, ISSN 0003-1615, Vol. 70, Nº. 4 (April), 2014, págs. 603-644
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The 1599 portrait Don Francisco de Arobe and His Sons, Pedro and Domingo by Andean artist Andres Sanchez Gallque (Figure 1) is one of the most frequently cited and reproduced paintings in the modern literature on colonial South America. The painting has been extensively praised, parsed, and interpreted by twentieth- and twenty-first-century authors, and heralded as the first signed South American portrait. “Remarkable” is the adjective most frequently employed to describe this work: modern authors express surprise and delight not only with the persuasive illusionistic power of the painting, the mesmerizing appearance of its subjects, and the artist's impressive mastery of the genre, but with the fact that the artist chose to sign and date his work, including a specific reference to his Andean identity.