Source: Gauvin Alexander Bailey, The Andean Hybrid Baroque; Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, plate 2.7.
Comments: Here's detail of the tympanum above the side portal of the church of La Compañía. According to Bailey's description of this side entrance, "the architect and sculptor created something completely original" (p. 50); that is this tympanum (not seen here) "breaks through the roof line and encloses a tympanum-like pictorial panel." Furthermore, according to Bailey, "the panel uses natural light to create a powerful chiaroscuro, and Saint James and his mount are dramatically foreshortened" (50).
Humanities topics: (A) Compare and contrast the figure and the action depicted in this tympanum with a what we studied earlier in Mexico; see: <= Tlatelolco; (B) Why depict this scene on a side entrance to a church in the Andes in the late seventeenth century? What does this have to do with colonial Latin American culture?