Museo Hilario Mendívil

Museo Hilario Mendívil Review

As San Blas's most famous son, the former home of 20th-century Peruvian religious artist Hilario Mendívil (1929-77), makes a good stop if you have an interest in Cusqeñan art and iconography. Legend has it that Mendívil saw llamas parading in the Corpus Christi procession as a child and later infused this image into his religious art, depicting all his figures with long, llamalike necks. In the small gallery are the maguey-wood and rice-plaster sculptures of the Virgin with the elongated necks that were the artist's trademark. There's also a shop selling Mendívil style work.