Religious art in Ecuador: connotations of good and evil

Abstract

This text proposes an oncoming of the symbology showed in the Ecuadorian´s religious paintings. For this framework two religious paintings located in the Principal Zaruma´s church and the Compañía´s church in Quito were chosen as an example, each one has as a principal thematic:  the hell and the final judgment. The objective of this investigation is to generate a comparative analysis of the variety of elements and thematics that the paintings show. The main purpose of this article is to establish the connections through the biblical stories, to show the fantastic - mythological characteristics and how they are a christian culture now. Therefore, this investigation is going to have an explanation and interpretation of the symbols and concepts that each painting has, due to an iconographic study, such as to define the contact points between the paintings and how these become a recurring symbol within each cultural context.