Lucía Querejazu Escobari is an Assistant Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Lima. A Bolivian historian, she specializes in colonial Andean painting and its connections to space, religiosity, and Marian devotions. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires in 2021 and has served as curator and director of the National Museum of Art in La Paz. From 2022 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the ERC-funded project Global Economies of Salvation at the University of Zurich.
Her recent publications focus on the Virgin of Copacabana (Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, 2023; Intrecci d'Arte, 2024) and the visual construction of Saint Rose of Lima (Brepols, 2025; Amsterdam University Press, 2026). She is currently working on a book exploring how a distinctive iconographic program in Caquiaviri framed the narrative of idolatry and salvation in the Andean world. She is a member of Empires, Objects, Environments, a Max Planck Partner Group/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz/PUCP.
