Interpretation of the sacred art of the San Juan del Valle Church in Loja-Ecuador

Abstract

With the present investigation it has been possible to identify that in the container of the San Juan del Valle Church there are four pictorial works that are considered cultural patrimony of Ecuador, besides it has been possible to decode the iconography of sacred art. The objective of the study is to present to the readers the first approximations of the meaning of the symbols present in the colonial church of the city of Loja. The methodology was of qualitative character and by means of a documentary analysis, comparative of religious works in other contexts. The results of the research allow us to have a clearer vision of the iconography of the sacred art of the colonial and republican period. It is concluded that this study will allow to deepen in the future other researches that are developed in the same line.