Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: V. P. ciprianus Barace Soc. J. natione Hispanus, patria Issabensis, ...

Accession number: 
08158
Record number: 
08158-1
JCB call number: 
BA704 O66r
Image title: 
V. P. ciprianus Barace Soc. J. natione Hispanus, patria Issabensis, ...
Creator 1: 
A. Chave
Creator 1 role: 
f. et excud
Place image published: 
[Lima]
Image publisher: 
[José de Contreras]
Image date: 
[1704]
Image function: 
plate; following title page
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
14.3 cm.
Image dimension width: 
10.4 cm.
Page dimension height: 
20.1 cm.
Page dimension width: 
14 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Latin
Description: 
The Jesuit father, Cipriano Baraze (or Barace), holds a cross while his torso is pierced by arrows and an axe cleaves his skull. Behind Baraze Jesuits preach to native Americans and are attacked by native Americans with clubs and bows and arrows. Built environment includes churches and dwellings. The scene of Baraze's martyrdom is enclosed in a foliated oval topped with a crowned Jesuit trigram and including bows, arrows, and clubs. Below, a Latin inscription flanked by angels describes Baraze's death.
Source creator: 
Orellana, Antonio de, 1653-1712
Source Title: 
Relacion summaria de la vida, y dichosa muerte del U. P. Cypriano Baraze de la Compañia de Iesus, ...
Source place of publication: 
Lima
Source publisher: 
En la Imprenta Real de Ioseph de Contreras
Source date: 
1704
notes: 
The Jesuits had at the end of the seventeenth century established some very successful missions among the Mojo [Moxo] Indians of Peru (present-day Bolivia). Baraze is credited with founding the city of la Santísima Trinidad. Father Baraze was born in Isaba, Navarra, Spain.
Time Period: 
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1883.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Portraits
Subject headings: 
Mojo Indians
Subject headings: 
Christian martyrs
Subject headings: 
Jesuits--Missions
Subject headings: 
Baraze, Cipriano, 1641-1702