CUZCO SCHOOL (18th-19th century).
SAN BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, oil on canvas with hand carved Brazilian frame
- Framed, 25 in. x 24 in.
Notes NOTE: Bartolomé de las Casas was a 16th-century Spanish colonist who acted as a historian and social reformer before becoming a Dominican friar. He was appointed as the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians".