Diego Quispe Tito (1611-1681),

• Was a Quechua painter from Peru.
• He is considered the leader of the Cuzco School of painting.
• The son of a noble Inca family, Quispe Tito was born in Cuzco.
• He worked throughout his life in the district of San Sebastián.
• Quispe Tito's earliest signed painting is an Immaculate Conception from 1627.
• His work is in the style of Spanish Mannerism and Flemish painting.
• Quispe Tito is believed to have learned these styles from Italian Jesuit Bernardo Bitti, who was active at the time in Cuzco.
• Quispe Tito also incorporated several personal elements into his work; most notable was his use of gilding and his depiction of spacious landscapes filled with birds and angels.
• In 1667 he painted several scenes from the life of Christ, which were sent to Potosí.
• Quispe Tito died in Cuzco in 1681.
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