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List Of People From Lima
This is a list of notable people from Lima, Peru. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in Lima, or for whom Lima is a significant part of their identity, as well as music groups founded in Lima. This list is in alphabetical order. Notable people Artists and designers * Grimanesa Amorós (born 1962), artist and light sculpture installations * Armando Andrade Tudela (born 1975), artist * Herman Braun-Vega (1933–2019), painter and artist * Frederick Cooper Llosa (born 1939), architect and professor * Federico del Campo (1837–1923), painter * José Gil de Castro (1785–1840/41), portrait painter, cartographer and soldier who spent many years in Chile * Fernando de Szyszlo (1925–2017), painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher. * Pancho Fierro (1807/1809–1879), painter. * Bernardo Fort-Brescia (born 1951), businessman and architect. * Cristina Gálvez (1916–1982), sculptor. * Gloria Gómez-Sánchez (1921–2007) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms Of Lima
The Coat of arms of Lima was granted by the Spanish Crown on December 7, 1537, by Royal Decree signed in Valladolid by Emperor Charles V and his mother Queen Joanna, endowing the city with the shield. Description In the ''Cédula'', preserved for a time in the Archives of the Cabildo, and later known by its transcription in another file of the city, the shield is described as follows: "A shield in blue field, with three crowns of gold of kings, placed in triangle, and on top of them, a gold star, which each of the three points of said star touches the three crowns, and by border some letters of gold that say: 'Hoc signum vere regum est', in red field, and by crest two black eagles of golden crown of kings, that look at each other, and embrace an I and a K, which are the first letters of our proper names, and on top of these said letters a golden star, according to here they are figured and painted." The slogan on the red border (gules) "Hoc signum vere regum est", which means "Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Medina
Nelson Medina (born 1978) is a Peruvian artist. Recognized early in his career, Medina has shown his works internationally in his magazine Revolutionart, which also promotes the work of independent artists and famous talents. Artists from all around the world participate in his requests to discuss world issues. Some of the main topics covered are climate change, economic crisis, evolution, pandemics, the future of humanity, space and nature. His work is to hunt global trends and turn them into calls that generate reflection from the artists. In this magazine he has interviewed personalities like Floria Sigismondi, Mark Miremont, Anthony Hopkins, Simone Legno, Matt Mignanelli, Skew Siskin, Jeremyville, Bogdan Zwir, Andrzej Dragan, Revolutionar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Rose Of Lima
Rose of Lima, TOSD (born Isabel Flores de Oliva; 20 April 1586 24 August 1617) (, ), was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the city through her own private efforts. Rose of Lima was born to a noble family and is the patron saint of embroidery, gardening, and cultivation of blooming flowers. She was the first person born in the Americas to be canonized as a saint. As a saint, Rose of Lima has been designated as a co-patroness of the Philippines, along with Pudentiana; both saints were moved to second-class patronage in September 1942 by Pope Pius XII, but Rose remains the primary patroness of Peru and of the local people of Latin America. Her image was formerly featured on the highest denomination banknote of Peru. Biography She was born as Isabel Flores de Oliva in the city of Lima, then in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire, on 20 Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Friar
The Order of Preachers (, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally display the letters ''OP'' after their names, standing for , meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars, nuns, active sisters, and lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as tertiaries). More recently, there have been a growing number of associates of the religious sisters who are unrelated to the tertiaries. Founded to preach the gospel and to oppose heresy, the teaching activity of the order and its scholastic organisation placed it at the forefront of the intellectual life of the Middle Ages. The order is famed for its intellectual tradition and for having produced many leading theologia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Martin Of Porras
Martín de Porres Velázquez (9 December 1579 – 3 November 1639) was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, all those seeking Racial equality, racial harmony, and animals. He was noted for his work on behalf of the poor, establishing an orphanage and a children's hospital. He maintained an austere lifestyle, which included fasting and vegetarianism, abstaining from meat. Among the many miracles attributed to him were those of levitation (paranormal), levitation, bilocation, miraculous knowledge, instantaneous cures, and an ability to communicate with animals. Lifestyle Martin was born in the city of Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire, on 9 December 1579. He was the illegitimate son of a Spain, Spanish nobleman, Don Juan de Porras y de la Peña, and Ana Velázquez, a Freedman, free ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacinto Barrasa
Jacinto Barrasa (or Barraza) (born at Lima, Peru, early in the seventeenth century; died there, 22 November 1704) was a Peruvian Jesuit preacher and historian. In the seventeenth century, the different religious orders appointed historiographers or official chroniclers of the work done in their American provinces. The Jesuits selected Ignacio de Arbieto for their Peruvian missions, but as his account was not accepted, Jacinto Barrasa was appointed in his stead. Works His fame was principally as a preacher, and two volumes of his "Sermones" were published, one at Madrid in 1678, the other at Lima in 1679. In the latter year he finished his voluminous history of the Society of Jesus in Peru, which is still at Lima in private hands, and comprises 1,350 pages of manuscript. Its title is: . No allusions are made in that chronicle to any other events than those of a religious or ecclesiastical nature. In addition to his "Sermones", a "Panegirico", pronounced by him in 1669 on the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Vallejo
Boris Vallejo (born January 8, 1941) is a Peruvian-American painter who works in the science fiction, fantasy, and erotica genres. His hyper-representational paintings have appeared on the covers of numerous novels in the science fiction, sword and sorcery, and fantasy fiction genres, along with album covers for musical groups in addition to movie posters and other media. His art is also sold through a series of annual calendars. Early biography Born in 1941 in Lima, Peru, Vallejo began painting at the age of 13, in 1954, and obtained his first illustration job three years later in 1957 at the age of 16. He attended Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes on a five-year scholarship, and was awarded a prize medal. Career After emigrating to the United States in 1964, at the age of 23, he quickly garnered a fan following from his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage, and various other fantasy characters (often done for paperback-fiction works fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Tokeshi
Eduardo Tokeshi Namizato (born August 12, 1960, in Lima, Peru) is a contemporary Peruvian artist. Eduardo Tokeshi was born on August 12, 1960, in Lima. His parents are Sara Namizato and Victor Tokeshi; he has one brother Jorge (b. 1957) and one sister Marisa (b. 1958). Okinawan Peruvian, he lived in Lima and studied at the America School of La Victoria and then in Colegio San Andrés (formerly named as Anglo-Peruvian School). He is a graduate of the Faculty of Art of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 1992. In his work, Tokeshi often combines both colonial and modern imagery. Tokeshi has represented Peru in multiple cultural events abroad such as the Bienal de São Paulo and the Biennial of art of Havana Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Tapia
Javier Tapia (born 1957) is a Peruvian artist and painter. Biography Javier Tapia was born in 1957 in Lima, Peru, and grew up in a period of upheaval when guerrilla warfare dominated political and social movements across the country. He moved to the United States in the 1980s, witnessing various phases of humanity: good and evil, intellectual and primitive, connected and separate. Tapia takes these studio themes as abstract shapes and broad strokes to serve as a metaphor for chaos and control, or structure and disorder. In the tradition of the Peruvian Textile, he overlaps, subtracts, and reworks the watercolors, flipping the paper out as bold colors emerge like carvings. The active ingredients emit physically; Work becomes energetic, on the verge of chaos, but organized in the constraints of paperwork. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia and works in the Virginia Commonwealth University's Faculty of Painting and Print Production, where he has been teaching since 1988. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaquín Roca Rey
Joaquín Roca Rey (January 27, 1923, Lima – 2004) was a Peruvian sculptor. Along with Cristina Gálvez, Jorge Piqueras and Juan Guzmán he has been called one of the most important Peruvian sculptors of the twentieth century. His work shows the influence of Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract art, abstract monumental Bronze sculpture, bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moore .... References Artists from Lima Peruvian sculptors 1923 births 2004 deaths 20th-century Peruvian male artists 20th-century Peruvian sculptors Male sculptors {{Peru-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cusco School
The Cusco school (''escuela cuzqueña'') or Cuzco school, was a Roman Catholic artistic tradition based in Cusco, Peru (the former capital of the Inca Empire) during the Colonial period, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. It was not limited to Cusco only, but spread to other cities in the Andes, as well as to present day Ecuador and Bolivia. Many colonial Cusco school paintings are preserved, most of them currently at Cusco, but also in other areas of Peru, the town of Calamarca (Bolivia) and in museums of Brazil, United States and England. History The tradition originated after the 1534 Spanish conquest of Peru,"The 'Cusquenha' Art." National Historical Museum of Brazil. and it is considered the first artistic center that systematically taught European artistic techniques in the |
Luis De Riaño
Luis de Riaño (1596–c. 1667) was a Peruvian criollo painter, active in the 17th-century. His work is an important representation of Cusco School, the Peruvian colonial painting style. De Riaño is best known for his frescos painted in the 1620s at the Church of San Pedro de Andahuaylillas in Cusco, nicknamed the "Sistine Chapel of the Americas". Biography Luis de Riaño was born in 1596 in Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru. He was the son of Ana de Cáceres, and Spanish captain Juan de Riaño. He studied Counter-Maniera style painting under Angelino Medoro Angelino Medoro (1567–1631) was an Italian painter, active in Latin America. His work in the Viceroyalty of Peru was greatly influential on the Cuzco School art movement. Biography Angelino Medoro was born in 1567 in present-day Italy, howeve ... from 1611 to 1618. Another student of Medoro who started a few years earlier in 1604 was Pedro de Loayza, an Indigenous Andean painter. Medoro's painting "Inmaculada Concepción" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
