Our Lady of the Rosary of Pomata

Pomata's Dominican sanctuary sits on the Lake Titicaca altiplano, and its own Rosary Virgin became, like Cocharcas and Copacabana, a devotion specific enough to travel under its own name. This canvas shows her enthroned with the Christ Child, in the same triangular, gold-worked mantle that marks nearly every pilgrimage Virgin the Cusco workshops reproduced. What distinguishes a Pomata Virgin from her sister images is mostly documentary — the inscribed name, the specific crown, the attributes tied to that one shrine's own miracle stories — rather than anything visually singular. That repetition-with-a-name is exactly how this tradition worked: one gold-leaf toolkit, deployed shrine by shrine across an empire.

Maker

Cusco School (anonymous)

Date

18th century

Medium of the original

Oil on canvas

Original held by

Phoenix Art Museum, via Wikimedia Commons

Credit

Phoenix Art Museum, via Wikimedia Commons

Rights

Public domain, verified

Catalogue number

PA-00153