Angelino Medoro (1565–1631)

• Was an Italian painter, active in Latin America.
• Angelino Medoro was born in either Rome, or Naples.
• Medoro is thought to have studied art in Rome, followed by travelled to Seville, and to New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia) and the Kingdom of Quito. 
• His only surviving artwork in Europe was the painting "Flagellation of Christ" (1586) in Seville.
• In Peru and Colombia about 25 works painted by him have been preserved. 

• His earliest work in the Americas was Virgen de la Antigua (1587–1588) in the Santo Domingo church in Bogotá.

• Medoro arrived in Peru around 1600, the year in which he signed a contract with the Mercedarian Order to paint their patron saint.

• Medoro, alongside Bernardo Bitti, and Matteo da Lecce were the three founders of Peruvian colonial painting.

• In 1617, he painted a portrait of Saint Rosa of Lima at Santuario Santa Rosa de Lima (also known as Church of Santa Rosa in Lima).

• Most of his work is located in Lima, having received commissions from the most important convents in that city.

• His students included Pedro de Loayza, Luis de Riaño, and Juan de Mesa.

• Medoro returned to Spain after 1620, and died in Seville in 1631.

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