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Michael
Michael
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This painting is one of a series of sixteen at the Denver Art Museum in Denver Colorado showing ancient rulers of the Inca Empire. It is not only a family tree but a political tool. Since proof of aristocratic Inca blood entitled people to special privileges and freed them from paying taxes in the Spanish Colonial period, paintings were used to document and assert this heritage. The set of paintings ends with Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish “conqueror” of Peru in 1534, shown in his European armor. Although romanticized, the Inca male rulers wear the uncu, an exquisitely woven tunic, and an aberrant version of the llautu, the traditional royal headdress complete with red forehead fringe. The painting of the Inca queen, Mama Occollo, shows her wearing the traditional women’s mantle, or lliclla, a rectangular cloth worn across the shoulders so that the stripes appear horizontally across the back, and held in place by a tupu pin inserted horizontally in the front. The geometric textile patterns in all the paintings are reminiscent of tocapu designs on traditional Inca noble clothing, signifying rank and status. The Coya Mama Ocllo Coya (or just Mama Ocllo) was a princess and queen consort, Coya, of the Inca Empire by marriage to her younger brother, Sapa Inca Topa Inca Yupanqui in accordance with custom. She was the mother of Huayna Capac and Coya Cusirimay. Queen Mama Ocllo is described as a dominant figure, "desirous for wealth" and remembered for her stratagems by which she was to have wielded great influence upon the affairs of state. After the death of her spouse, Topa Inca Yupanqui, in 1493, her son and heir, Huayna Capac, was still a minor. The favorite concubine of her late spouse, Ciqui Ollco, attempted to place her son Capac Huari on the throne. Queen dowager Mama Ocllo prevented this attempted coup by planting the rumor that Ciqui Ollco was a witch and exiling Capac Huari to Chincheru, while her son, Huayna Capac, became the next Inca leader.

This painting is one of a series of sixteen at the Denver Art Museum in Denver Colorado showing ancient rulers of the Inca Empire. It is not only a family tree but a political tool. Since proof of aristocratic Inca blood entitled people to special privileges and freed them from paying taxes in the Spanish Colonial period, paintings were used to document and assert this heritage. The set of paintings ends with Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish “conqueror” of Peru in 1534, shown in his European armor. Although romanticized, the Inca male rulers wear the uncu, an exquisitely woven tunic, and an aberrant version of the llautu, the traditional royal headdress complete with red forehead fringe. The painting of the Inca queen, Mama Occollo, shows her wearing the traditional women’s mantle, or lliclla, a rectangular cloth worn across the shoulders so that the stripes appear horizontally across the back, and held in place by a tupu pin inserted horizontally in the front. The geometric textile patterns in all the paintings are reminiscent of tocapu designs on traditional Inca noble clothing, signifying rank and status. The Coya Mama Ocllo Coya (or just Mama Ocllo) was a princess and queen consort, Coya, of the Inca Empire by marriage to her younger brother, Sapa Inca Topa Inca Yupanqui in accordance with custom. She was the mother of Huayna Capac and Coya Cusirimay. Queen Mama Ocllo is described as a dominant figure, "desirous for wealth" and remembered for her stratagems by which she was to have wielded great influence upon the affairs of state. After the death of her spouse, Topa Inca Yupanqui, in 1493, her son and heir, Huayna Capac, was still a minor. The favorite concubine of her late spouse, Ciqui Ollco, attempted to place her son Capac Huari on the throne. Queen dowager Mama Ocllo prevented this attempted coup by planting the rumor that Ciqui Ollco was a witch and exiling Capac Huari to Chincheru, while her son, Huayna Capac, became the next Inca leader.

Mama Ocllo Huacco I Ccoya del Peru - After Marco Chillitupa Chávez (Peruvian) - Oil on canvas / 1830-1850 - Denver Art Museum (Colorado) #WomenInArt #art #ArtText #artwork #DenverArtMuseum #PeruvianArt #Queen #Peruvian #womensart #portraitofawoman #oilpainting #MamaOcllo #incan #coya #blueskyart

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