Popayán Archdiocesan Museum of Religious Art

The Popayán Archdiocesan Museum of Religious Art (Spanish: Museo de Arte Religioso Arquidiocesano de Popayán) is a museum located in the capital of the department of Cauca, Colombia. The museum is mainly dedicated to exhibit sacred art.^[1]

Popayán Archdiocesan Museum of Religious Art

Museo de Arte Religioso Arquidiocesano de Popayán
Established	1972
Location	Popayán, Colombia
Coordinates	2°26′31″N 76°36′16″W / 2.441819°N 76.604386°W / 2.441819; -76.604386
Type	Religious Art Museum

History

The building where the museum is located used to be a house of the Arboleda family.^[2] The museum was founded in 1972 by Archbishop Miguel Angel Arce. After the 1983 Popayán Earthquake, the museum building suffered serious damage, part of the museum's collections were recovered and preserved in the Bank of the Republic.^[3] The museum is part of the List of Properties declared of Cultural Interest in the National Area (Spanish: Lista de Bienes declarados Bien de Interés Cultural de Ámbito Nacional) as of decree 2248 of December 11, 1996.^[4] In 2013, thieves stole several religious items from the museum, including archbishop's rings.^[5]

Collections

The museum's collections include sculptures, jewelry, liturgical pieces, altars and paintings dating from the 17th to 18th centuries.^[6] The museum also conserves monstrances and ciboriums.^[7] The museum contains religious art by Quito artists from colonial times.^[8] The museum has a canvas of the Last Supper by the Ecuadorian artist Bernando Rodriguez.^[9] The museum contains two specimens of "Inmaculadas Legardianas".^[10] The museum contains a silver almoner, the painting of this almoner, elaborated on copper sheet, represents a saint Ecce Homo.^[11]

References

1. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Reisehandbuch Kolumbien (in German). National Geographic Deutschland. 2020-01-20. ISBN 978-3-95559-297-4.
2. Rueda, Marcela, Revollo (2018-09-01). Epistolario de Joaquín Mosquera: Introducción, transcripción y notas de Marcela Revollo Rueda (in Spanish). Universidad de la Sabana. ISBN 978-958-12-0497-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
3. Bustamante, Édgar (2020-04-09). "Arte religioso de Popayán" [Religious art of Popayán]. El Espectador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
4. "Lista de Bienes declarados Bien de Interés Cultural de Ámbito Nacional" [List of Properties declared of Cultural Interest at the National Level] (PDF). Colombia Ministry of Culture. 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
5. "Asaltan el Museo de Arte Religioso de Popayán". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2022-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
6. "La ˜Ciudad Blanca' se prepara para la Semana Santa" [The 'White City' prepares for Easter Week]. Crónica del Quindío (in Spanish). 2011-03-20. Retrieved 2022-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
7. "Rutas de Turismo Religioso". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 2004-12-03. Retrieved 2022-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
8. Carolina, Abadía Quintero (2021-09-30). "Por una merced en estos reinos": Redes, circulación eclesiástica y negociación política en el Obispado de Popayán, 1546-1714 (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad del Rosario. ISBN 978-958-784-724-6.
9. Barrera, Julio Pazos (2021-03-04). Elogio de las cocinas tradicionales del Ecuador (in Spanish). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. ISBN 978-9978-77-532-5.
10. Barco, Rosita Andrea Pantoja (2008). Afrodita barroca: fragmentos para el estudio de una sensibilidad de la cultura : Popayán, siglos XVII y XVIII (in Spanish). Editorial Abya Yala. ISBN 978-9978-22-762-6.
11. "La pintura sobre láminas de cobre en el Nuevo Reino de Granada" [Painting on copper sheeting in the New Kingdom of Granada]. Banco de la República (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)