Finding Caspicara: Double Identities, Hidden Figures, and the Commerce of Sculpture in Colonial Quito
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2026 Eleanor Tufts Award, Society for Iberian Global Art, College Art Association
An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic production of the city’s workshops and its widespread commerce of polychrome sculptures.
Who is Caspicara? Nothing is known of Caspicara’s life, and not a single sculpture has been documented as his work. Yet traditional histories laud him as a prolific Indigenous sculptor...






















