News

• 8 / 2018: Survey of 16th, 17th, and 18th century print albums held at the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú. 

• 8 / 2018: Survey of colonial works held at the Instituto Riva Agüero (Lima, Perú).
• 7 / 2018: Novedades de PESSCA 58 is posted.
• 7 / 2018: Short photographic expedition on the Camino de Santiago (Navarra, La Rioja, Burgos, León, and Galicia).
• 7 / 2018: PESSCA research presented at the 56th International Congress of Americanists in Salamanca, Spain.
• 6 / 2018: PESSCA research to be presented at the Segundo Congreso Internacional de Arte Peruano (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú).
• 6 / 2018: Novedades de PESSCA 57 is out.

• 6 / 2018: Correspondence 4300 is up.
• 6 / 2018: PESSCA research to be presented at the I Congreso Internacional de Museos y Arte Religioso (Museo de Arte Religioso Juan de Tejeda, Córdoba, ARG)
• 5 / 2018: Field trip through the State of Mexico returns with 15 books and 700 images of Spanish Colonial Art.
• 5 / 2018: PESSCA research presented at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• 4 / 2018: PESSCA interview in puntoedu, the weekly magazine of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
• 4 / 2018: Novedades de PESSCA 56 is posted.

• 4 / 2018: PESSCA to research the colonial collections of the Instituto Riva Agüero, Lima, Perú.
• 4 / 2018: PESSCA Director named Honorary Member of the Instituto Riva Agüero, Lima, Perú.
• 3 / 2018: Presentation of PESSCA research at the Universidad Católica del Perú.
• 2 / 2018: Novedades de PESSCA 55 is out.
• 2 / 2018: Correspondence 4200 is reached.
• 1 / 2018: Over the last month, 1425 indiviuduals visited the PESSCA website. Together they conducted 2051 visits, viewed 13903 pages, and clocked about 185 hours. Visits came from the United States (22%), Peru (14%), the United Kingdom (9%), Spain (8%), Mexico (6%), and 68 other countries. 

• 1 / 2018:  PESSCA to look into image recognition software as a research tool.
• 1 / 2018:  Novedades de PESSCA 54 is issued.
• 1 / 2018:  New essay is posted (see Fuentes Grabadas del Arte Colonial: La evidencia documental)
• 1 / 2018:  Expedited review of new correspondences is restored.

• 12 / 2017:  PESSCA research to be featured at an art show to open in October 2018 at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, in Mexico City.
• 12 / 2017:  Novedades de PESSCA 53 is issued.
• 12 / 2017:  Correspondence 4100 is posted.
• 11 / 2017:  Photographic expedition to Buenos Aires, Salta, Jujuy, and Córdoba returns with more than 1200 photographs of Spanish Colonial art.
• 11 / 2017:  PESSCA research presented at the IX Encuentro Internacional sobre Barroco (Buenos Aires).

• 11 / 2017:  Novedades de PESSCA 52 is mailed out.
• 11 / 2017:  Amigos the PESSCA now number 175.
• 11 / 2017:  PESSCA research to be presented at the 56° Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (Salamanca 2018).
• 10 / 2017:  Lightning photographic expedition to Lima returns with hundreds of photographs.
• 10 / 2017:  PESSCA Research presented at the I Congreso Internacional de Arte Peruano (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos).
• 10 / 2017:  Novedades de PESSCA 51 is out.

• 9 / 2017:  Photographic expedition returns from Lima with more than 17000 photographs of Spanish Colonial Art.
• 9 / 2017:  Photographic expedition returns from Cusco with more than 1400 photographs of Spanish Colonial Art.
• 9 / 2017:  Work of PESSCA presented at the IV Festival del Barroco Latinoamericano (Cusco, Peru).
• 9 / 2017:  PESSCA plays a role in the recovery of a second stolen masterpiece of Spanish Colonial Art.
• 9 / 2017:  Correspondence 4000 is posted.
• 9 / 2017:  PESSCA research to be presented at the I Congreso Internacional de Arte Peruano (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, October 2017).

• 9 / 2017:  The work of PESSCA is featured at the Permanent Seminar on the Digital Humanities founded at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
• 9 / 2017:  The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú offers an extracurricular seminar based on PESSCA research.
• 8 / 2017:  PESSCA deepens its collaboration with the Museo Pedro de Osma in Lima, Peru.
• 7 / 2017:  The Proyecto de Estudios Indianos opens a research line on Historia del Arte Virreinal Americano based on the work of PESSCA.
  
• 7 / 2017:  Photographic expedition to Quito returns with more than 4500 photographs of Spanish Colonial art.
• 6 / 2017:  PESSCA plays a role in the recovery of a stolen masterpiece of Spanish Colonial Art.

• 6 / 2017:  Novedades de PESSCA 49 is issued.
• 6 / 2017:  Correspondence 3900 is reached.
• 5 / 2017:  PESSCA research to be presented at the IX Encuentro Barroco (Buenos Aires, November 2017).
  
• 5 / 2017:  Novedades de PESSCA 48 is posted.
• 4 / 2017:  PESSCA invited to present at the IV Festival del Barroco Latinoamericano (Cusco, September 2017).
• 4 / 2017:  PESSCA to acquire the state-of-the-art Hollstein catalog of the graphic works after Jan van der Straet.

• 4 / 2017:  Novedades de PESSCA 47 is out.
• 4 / 2017:  Correspondence 3800 is posted.
• 3 / 2017:  Novedades de PESSCA 46 is posted.
• 3 / 2017:  Correspondence 3700 is reached.
• 3 / 2017:  Seminar based on PESSCA research to be offered at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in August 2017.
• 3 / 2017:  PESSCA to acquire a complete set of photographs of the large collection of thesis sheets of the Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg.

• 3 / 2017:  PESSCA to acquire the state-of-the-art Hollstein catalog of the graphic works after Maarten de Vos.
• 2 / 2017:  Novedades de PESSCA 45 is out.
• 1 / 2017:  Major exhibit based on the work of PESSCA opens in Cusco.
• 1 / 2017:  Photographic exhibit to Cusco returns with more than 2300 photographs.

• 12 / 2016:  Novedades de PESSCA 44 is posted.
• 12 / 2016:  Correspondence 3600 is reached.
• 11 / 2016:  Novedades de PESSCA 43 is out.
• 10 / 2016:  Novedades de PESSCA 42 is issued.

• 10 / 2016:  Correspondence 3500 is posted.
• 09 / 2016:  Novedades de PESSCA 41 is released.
• 09 / 2016:  PESSCA research is featured at a major exhibit on Cuzco School Painting at the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI).
  
• 09 / 2016:  Presentation of PESSCA research at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.
• 09 / 2016:  Presentation of PESSCA research at the Seminario de Santo Toribio, Lima, Perú.

• 09 / 2016:  Major photographic expedition to the City of Cusco and its environs returns with thousands of photographs.

• 08 / 2016:  Exhibition based on PESSCA research to be inaugurated at Casa Garcilaso (Cusco) in January 2017. 

• 08 / 2016:  Course on Spanish Colonial Art based on PESSCA research is delivered in Cusco.
• 08 / 2016:  PESSCA research to be featured at an exhibit in Mexico City in 2018.
• 08 / 2016:  Photographic Expedition to Arequipa returns with hundreds of photographs of Spanish Colonial Art.
• 08 / 2016:  Presentation of PESSCA research at the Siglo de Oro Conference in Arequipa.
• 08 / 2016:  Research collaboration launched with the rare book library at the Convento de la Recoleta, Arequipa.

• 08 / 2016:  Major exhibit in Arequipa features PESSCA research.
• 07 / 2016:  Novedades de PESSCA 40 is out.
• 07 / 2016:  Correspondence 3400 is posted.
• 07 / 2016:  PESSCA invited to present materials at an upcoming exhibition of Colonial Art at the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI).
• 07 / 2016: Collaborative project is launched regarding a set of gilded copperplates at the Osma Museum in Lima, Perú.
• 07 / 2016: Lightning photographic expedition in Arequipa is launched.

• 07 / 2016:  Lightning photographic expedition in Lima is launched.
• 07 / 2016:  PESSCA Gallery 14 (Epigraphy of the Prophets of Congonhas) opens.
• 06 / 2016:  The PESSCA website received more than 20,000 visits in the last month.
• 05 / 2016:  Novedades de PESSCA 39 is issued.
• 04 / 2016:  Correspondence 3300 is reached.
• 04 / 2016:  Novedades de PESSCA 38 is posted.

• 04 / 2016:  Collaboration with PESSCA highlighted in the Museo de Osma facebook.
• 03 / 2016:  Novedades de PESSCA 37 is issued.
• 03 / 2016:  Lightning photographic expedition to Quito returns with hundreds of photographed pieces.
• 03 / 2016:  De Augsburgo a Quito catalog launched in Quito at the Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús.

2015

• 12 / 2015:  A new exhibition based on PESSCA research is set for Summer 2016 at the Convento de Santa Catalina, Arequipa, Peru.
  
• 12 / 2015:  Novedades de PESSCA 36 is out.
  
• 12 / 2015:  Correspondence 3200 is posted.

• 12 / 2015:  The catalog for the De Augsburgo a Quito show is published.
  
• 11 / 2015:  The UC Davis Journal of the Institute for Social Studies reviews PESSCA.
• 11 / 2015:  Novedades de PESSCA 35 is released.
  
• 10 / 2015:  Novedades de PESSCA 34 is issued.
  
• 10 / 2015:  Correspondence 3100 is reached.

• 10 / 2015:  In the last month, 1876 individuals made 2548 visits to the PESSCA website, collectively viewing 17532 pages.

• 09 / 2015:  Photographic expedition to Cuzco returns with more than 1000 photographs.
  
• 09 / 2015:  Presentations of PESSCA research at the II Festival Internacional del Barroco Latinoamericano and at the Escuela de Bellas Artes (Cuzco, Peru).
  
• 09 / 2015:  Photographic expedition to Lima returns with more than 150 photographs.
  
• 09 / 2015:  Presentation of PESSCA research at the Miércoles Patrimoniales series of the Muncipalidad de Lima.
  
• 08 / 2015:  New gallery opens in PESSCA site (Gallery 13: The Elogia Mariana of the Great Cathedral of Cuzco).
  

• 08 / 2015:  Novedades de PESSCA 33 is released.
  

• 08 / 2015:  PESSCA acquires photographs of more than two hundred Klauber engravings from the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
• 07 / 2015:  PESSCA research featured at Para Vos Nací, art exhibit organized by the Municipalidad de Lima.
• 07 / 2015:  Correspondence 3000 is posted.
• 06 / 2015:  PESSCA Findings reported by news organizations in Arequipa.
• 06 / 2015:  Photographic Expedition to Arequipa and Valle del Colca returns with hundreds of photographs.

• 06 / 2015:  Presentation of PESSCA results at the VIII Encuentro Internacional sobre Barroco (Arequipa, Perú).

• 06 / 2015:  PESSCA is ten years old.
• 05 / 2015:  Novedades de PESSCA 32 is out.
• 05 / 2015:  Correspondence 2900 is reached.
• 04 / 2015:  PESSCA joins international effort led by the Archbishopric of Cuzco to find, catalog, research and publicize colonial artworks of the city.
  
• 04 / 2015:  PESSCA Archive acquires photographs of more than a hundred 18th century engravings produced in Augsburg at the Klauber Workshop.
  
• 03 / 2015:  Novedades de PESSCA 31 is published.

• 02 / 2015:  In the last month, 1485 individuals made 1932 visits to the PESSCA website, collectively viewing 14996 pages (Source: Google Analytics).
  
• 02 / 2015:  Novedades de PESSCA 30 is issued.
  
• 02 / 2015:  Correspondence 2800 is posted.
• 01 / 2015:  Collaboration with the Museum of the Convento de Santa Catalina, Arequipa, Perú.

2014

• 12 / 2014:  Novedades de PESSCA 29 is released
• 12 / 2014:  De Augsburgo a Quito closes after welcoming 20,413 visitors

• 12 / 2014:  Correspondence 2700 is reached
  
• 10 / 2014:  Novedades de PESSCA 28 is issued.
  
• 10 / 2014:  Correspondence 2600 is posted.
  
• 09 / 2014:  Research visit to the Museo de América (Madrid) is completed.
  
• 09 / 2014:  Results of PESSCA research are presented at the VIII Congress of the Seciedad de Estudios Históricos de Navarra (Museo de Navarra, Pamplona).
  
• 09 / 2014:  Novedades de PESSCA 27 is released.

• 08 / 2014:  Photographic expedition to Lima returns with hundreds of photographs.
  
• 07 / 2014:  Major exibit opens in Quito based on PESSCA research.
  
• 07 / 2014:  Novedades de PESSCA 26 is issued.
  
• 07 / 2014:  Correspondence 2500 is reached.
  
• 07 / 2014:  PESSCA Workshop at the Universidad Católica organizes the entire set of PESSCA correspondences by artwork location (click here).
  
• 07 / 2014:  Lightning photographic expedition to Ayacucho returns with 1GB of photographs.
  

• 06 / 2014:  Lightning photographic expedition to Cuzco returns with 2GB of photographs.
  
• 05 / 2014: The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú installs a mirror of the PESSCA site in its institutional repository (click here).
  
• 05 / 2014:  Lightning photographic expedition to Quito returns with 600 photographs of colonial artworks.
  
• 04 / 2014:  PESSCA lectures and workshops are begun at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
  
• 03 / 2014:  Novedades de PESSCA 24 is issued.
  
• 03 / 2014:  Major upgrade of the PESSCA website is performed
  

• 03 / 2014:  Correspondence 2400 is posted.
• 02 / 2014:  Gallery 12: The Celestial Dome of El Sagrario de Quito opens.
• 02 / 2014:  Filipa Medeiros contributes photographs of the illustrations to the Missale Romanum of Lisbon, 1784.
• 01 / 2014:  Novedades de PESSCA 23 is released.

• 12 / 2013:  The Friends of PESSCA list registers its 100th member.
• 12 / 2013:  Visitors to the PESSCA website collectively view more than 40,000 pages of the site in the last month.
• 12 / 2013:  Correspondence 2300 is reached.
• 12 / 2013:  PESSCA is mentioned in Desde la Sala, órgano informativo de la Sala Antioquia, Biblioteca Pública Piloto, Medellín, Colombia.
• 11 / 2013:  Novedades de PESSCA 22 is issued.
• 11 / 2013:  The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú will host a mirror of the PESSCA site.

• 10 / 2013:  Visitors to the PESSCA website collectively view more than 30,000 pages of the site in the last month.
• 09 / 2013:  Novedades de PESSCA 21 is out.
• 09 / 2013: PESSCA featured at the 28th Congress of the International Bibliophile Association (Augsburg University Library Session).
• 09 / 2013: Expedition to Germany returns with photographs of more than 1700 engravings produced in 18th century Augsburg.
• 09 / 2013: Correspondence 2200 is posted.
• 08 / 2013: Gallery: 11 The Remarkable Apostles of Göz - Klauber - Rodríguez opens.

• 08 / 2013:  Rubem Amaral Jr. donates to PESSCA a valuable collection of photographs of Brazilian Colonial art.
• 08 / 2013:  Correspondence 2100 is reached.
• 07 / 2013:  Novedades de PESSCA 20 is posted.
• 07 / 2013:  Photographic expedition to Quito returns with close to 3000 photographs of Colonial Art.
• 07 / 2013:  Presentation of PESSCA research at the Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador.
• 07 / 2013:  Review of PESSCA in the Society for Emblem Studies Newsletter, Volume 53.

• 07 / 2013:  Presentation of PESSCA research at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecudaor.

• 07 / 2013:  Almerindo Ojeda, director of PESSCA, is interviewed in Arte Colonial Andino: Laboratorio de Investigación Sobre Arte
• 06 / 2013:  Presentation of the PESSCA project at the Universidad Católica del Perú.
• 05 / 2013:  PESSCA joins the team producing The Art of Painting in Colonial Bolivia (forthcoming from Saint Joseph's University Press).
• 05 / 2013:  Novedades de PESSCA 19 is out.
• 05 / 2013:  Correspondence 2000 is posted.

• 05 / 2013:  PESSCA receives a grant from the University of California Humanities Network (University of California Humanities Research Institute); it is then supplemented by the UC Davis Humanities Institute and the UC Davis College of Letters and Science.
• 05 / 2013:  Lightning visit to the Spanish Colonial holdings in the Brooklyn Museum, Saint Joseph's University, and the Huber Collection.
• 04 / 2013:  Novedades de PESSCA 18 is released.
• 04 / 2013:  PESSCA invited to present at the Universidad Andina in Quito, Ecuador.
• 03 / 2013:  Google Analytics records more than 2000 visits to the PESSCA website in one month. In them, 1415 people viewed 20422 pages.
• 02 / 2013:  Novedades de PESSCA 17 is issued.

• 02 / 2013:  Correspondence 1900 is reached.

• 01 / 2013:  Google Analytics records more than 1500 visits to the PESSCA website in one month.

• 01 / 2013:  Novedades de PESSCA 16 is released.
• 01 / 2013:  PESSCA invited to present the results of its research at The Fourteenth Colony: California Indians, Missions, Presidios, and Colonists in the Hispanic Frontier, 1769-1848,  a workshop organized by the Institute of Archaeology of the California State University at Monterey Bay with support from The National Endowment for the Humanities. Asilomar, California, July 13-19, 2013).

• 12 / 2012:  Research at the Reserves, Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, in Paris.
• 12 / 2012:  Correspondence 1800 is posted.
• 11 / 2012:  Novedades de PESSCA 15 is issued.
• 09 / 2012:  Novedades de PESSCA 14 is released.
• 09 / 2012:  Correspondence 1700 is reached.

• 09 / 2012:  A collaboration is launched with the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI).
• 08 / 2012:  PESSCA examines the latest additions to the Colonial collection of the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI).
• 07 / 2012:  Photographic expedition to the Monasterio de Santa Teresa de Ayacucho is undertaken.
• 07 / 2012:  The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú funds a photographic expedition to Ayacucho.
• 07 / 2012:  Seventy five scholars, collectors, curators, conservators, marchands, photographers, and art enthusiasts are now Friends of PESSCA.

• 07 / 2012:  Novedades de PESSCA 13 is issued.

• 07 / 2012:  Comprehensive photographic capture of the paintings of the Iglesia de Jesús, María, y José in Lima.
• 06 / 2012:  PESSCA reaches correspondence 1600.
• 06 / 2012:  Friends of PESSCA meet in Lima to discuss future enhancements to the project.
• 06 / 2012:  PESSCA is granted access to the Jaime Borja Archive of images of Neogranadine Art.
• 06 / 2012:  Photographic expedition to Colombia (Bogotá, Boyacá, and Popayán).

• 06 / 2012:  A series of lectures based on PESSCA research is delivered at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, Colombia.

• 05 / 2012:  A lecture based on PESSCA research is delivered at the Catholic University in Lima, Peru.
• 05 / 2012:  A series of  master classes based on PESSCA research is delivered at the Catholic University in Lima, Peru.
• 05 / 2012:  Novedades de PESSCA 12 is issued
• 03 / 2012:  Novedades de PESSCA 11 is issued.
• 03 / 2012:  PESSCA begins archiving correspondences with architectural subjects
  
• 02 / 2012:  PESSCA reaches correspondence 1500.

• 02 / 2012:  The Inter-American Institute for Advanced Study in Cultural History opens to us its collection of images of Colonial Latin American art.

• 01 / 2012:  Novedades de PESSCA 10 is issued.
• 01 / 2012:  PESSCA to participate in the scholarly exchange program between the UCD-HIA and the PUCP.
• 01 / 2012:  Photographic expedition to Goa (India) returns with more than 700 images.