Saint Rose of Lima, with the Christ Child
Cusco School (anonymous), c. 1680–1700
$235
Print check at 16 x 24 in: 166 dpi, good. Trimmed 0.4% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Rose of Lima — a Peruvian-born Dominican tertiary canonized in 1671 — was the first saint of the Americas, and her cult spread through the viceroyalty with an intensity matched by few other colonial devotions. This canvas shows her in a quieter register than the grand civic processions her feast day inspired: seated close with the infant Christ, a rose (her namesake attribute) never far from the frame. Producing a Lima-born saint at all was itself an assertion — proof that holiness could originate in the Americas, not just arrive from Europe. Cusco workshops, hundreds of miles from her actual shrine in Lima, painted her constantly. A companion piece showing Saint Martín de Porres — the mixed-race Dominican lay brother venerated alongside her — remains unsourced; see DECISIONS.md.
- Maker
- Cusco School (anonymous)
- Date
- c. 1680–1700
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, via Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00174
| Picture | 16 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 17.6 x 25.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 333 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.4% |
| 12 x 18 in | 222 | Excellent | Trimmed 0.4% |
| 16 x 24 in | 166 | Good | Trimmed 0.4% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,678 x 4,001 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 14, lights 179 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 0.57
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
- Soft fine detail at full resolution: smaller sizes print crisper
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