Art of the Spanish Americas

Francisco Mamani-Fuentes, Research & Travel Awardee

Dr. Francisco Mamani-Fuentes, Slicher van bath de Jong Postdoctoral Fellow of the Center for Latin American Research and Documentation of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, has received a Research & Travel Award to support their project After Disaster: Artistic and Patronage Networks in the Franciscan Order of Cusco (1650-1700). Mamani’s archival investigation focuses on the Seraphic Order and their role as artistic patrons and as leaders of the reconstruction of the city of Cusco after the 1650 earthquake.