Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao

He was part of the Cuzco School, a colonial movement of indigenous painters educated in the Baroque religious painting tradition of Spain.

Basilio Santa Cruz is also known by his Quechua name, Pumaqallo or Pumacallo, and with Diego Quispe Tito, is regarded as one of the most famous painters in the Cusco School tradition.

[5] His work combined the parallel influences of Peru and Spain and is characterized by its dynamic composition, lavish decoration, and large scale.

The Iglesia de la Merced has Santa Cruz's "Martyrdom of Saint Laurence", a painting with angels in the style of Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.

Corpus Christi Procession in Cuzco, a late 17th-century oil on canvas painting in the collection of the Museo Arzobispol del Arte Religioso, has been attributed to him.

A Franciscan Allegory of the Immaculate Virgin , by the workshop of Basilio de Santa Cruz Pumacallo, oil on canvas, 210 cm x 148 cm, ca. 1670–1680, in the Museo de San Francisco, Santiago, Chile [ 1 ]