CUIRIS, Juan Bautista
(active 1590s in Michoacán, Mexico)

Biography

Spanish artist, active in Mexico in the early colonial period when the pre-Hispanic art of feather painting flourished. He worked at one of the trade schools attached to the region's Augustinian monasteries under the auspices of Bishop Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565). No biographical data are known about the artist.



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