Church of the Society of Jesus, Quito
An interior entirely sheathed in gilded carving, the high point of Andean Baroque
- Style
- Latin American Baroque — Iberian Baroque reworked by Indigenous and mestizo craftsmen into dense, gilded church fronts
- Century
- 17th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1605–1615 Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes · Madrid
- c. 1600 Hamlet — William Shakespeare · London
- 1632–1653 Taj Mahal — Ustad Ahmad Lahauri · Mughal Art · Agra
- 1607 L'Orfeo — Claudio Monteverdi · Baroque · Mantua
- 1609–1616 Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) — Sedefkâr Mehmed Agha · Classical Ottoman Architecture (Sinan) · Istanbul
- 1609 Royal Commentaries of the Incas — Inca Garcilaso de la Vega · Córdoba, Spain
- 1599–1600 The Calling of Saint Matthew — Caravaggio · Baroque · Rome, San Luigi dei Francesi
- 1598 The Peony Pavilion — Tang Xianzu · Linchuan
What was happening in the world
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai
- 1592–1598 Imjin War
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles
- 1598 Edict of Nantes
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara