Museo de Arte Religioso
Viceregal painting collection in a former archbishop's palace, saved from decades of unguarded church theft.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Museo de Arte Religioso in Cusco starts with the small scars on old canvases: a scratch, a crease, a mended patch. It follows an American lawyer, Frederic Truslow, who in 1983 set out with a camera to record the paintings in the region's churches, and a Virgin of Guadalupe from a village in the Sacred Valley that disappeared in 2002. Best heard standing in front of a canvas, close enough to see the paint.
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