Stratton-Pruitt's 'Art And Death In The Colonial Andes'

‘Art and Death in the Colonial Andes’ by Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt ‘Art and Death in the Colonial Andes’ by Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt centered on various paintings done in the western European style that were used as objects of worship for the push of Catholicism on the Andean people during Spanish colonization. Stratton-Pruitt argues that the paintings depict four main elements. These ‘four last things’ constitute death, judgment, hell, and heaven, and she discussed their appearance in several examples of paintings from Andean colonial churches. While colonial influenced art is not a primary factor in our course on art and archaeology of ancient Peru, I detected a common theme of one style of art overcoming a previous style. The Spanish