Starting the day with an overflowing and promising blue sky, very common during summer in Quito, our Quito World Heritage Site, and at the foot of the impact of the view of the Religious Complex that surpassing time after five hundred years, continues and is a world heritage site humanity, we waited for Alicia and her Friends for a tour.
When the girls arrived, our walk was accompanied by the white and high walls, patios, chapels, a Temple with a high altar full of life and art, which fulfills the concept that there is no space without decoration, that more than fearing the void (the baroque style says so) takes your breath away for the work and inspiration and union of cultures (syncretism), by spreading everywhere Mudejar, Mozarabic, Plateresque forms and much more intertwined, as endless chains inside, all this with polychrome, golden sparkles, enormous wings embossed in silver that push saints to fly like human birds.
What a sensation of overflowing illusions with a clear allusion to that “blanket” of religious thought invites and surrounds us with silence, to include ourselves and sit for a moment to reflect, thank and even see acts and expressions of faith. How great what surrounds us, how small we are.
We then went on to a private visit of the neighboring chapel of the High Altar, the jewel of the Art of the Art School of Quito with its teachers acclaiming their presence with a young and renewed face that pays honor by being called Cantuña, the Chapel of Cantuña, which impacts us only listening to his name until almost feeling him alive… a man of faith, who lived during the Spanish colony and his dedication to work that we still see, is still standing and some firm doors to the novitiate of the Convent open, unmistakable doors for their style. Cantuña made them; by their technique we recognize them; With the elements of fire and iron, the proud and royal doors show off the monograms of Jesus and Mother Mary, the Virgin. Cantuña, the artist legend who did that and much, much more…until he defeated the devil himself and made him work.
Exceptional life-size sculptures of saints rest in its museum guarding the eternal sleep of the Virgin
