Antonio Vilca (active from 1768-1803)

• Was an indigenous Peruvian painter.
• Active in Cuzco.

• An indigenous painter, he was among the most famous masters of the Cuzco school at the end of the viceroyalty.

• He continued the style of Marcos Zapata, but using more advanced models.

• Vilca can be considered one of the introducers of eighteenth-century Germanic engraving and Rococo decoration in the art of the southern Andes.

• He is the author of some Litany of Loreto in the churches of Zurite and Pujiura, in the latter case inspired by the prints of the Klauber brothers inserted in the devout book Litany Lauretanae, published in Freiburg by Francisco Xaverio Dorn.

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