Controversial pictures: the attack against the inca’s historical memory after Cuzco’s “GRAN REBELIÓN”

Abstract

Images and symbols that legitimated the Inca nobility, associated with preHispanic Andean traditions, raised a controversy after the Cuzco‟s “Gran Rebelión” (1781) that became in prohibitions against them. Based on Moscoso and Areche words, we analyze the reasons for that censor, where it take part arguments about the image‟s function spread from the beginnings of the Spanish occupation.