Cuzco School: The Second Conversion of Saint Teresa . ca. 1694. Convento del Carmen
San Jose. Santiago de Chile. Photo: Mebold (1987, 77).

Adriaen Collaert (ca.1560-1618) and Cornelis I Galle (1576-1650) designed a series of twenty four engravings on the life of Saint Teresa de Avila (see Gallery 5). This series served as the basis for two series of paintings on the life of the saint currently in the Convento del Carmen San José (Carmen Alto) in Santiago, Chile. They are known as the Serie Grande (Large-format series) and the Serie Chica (Small-format series) on the Life of Saint Teresa (see Mebold 1987, 54-108).

The large-format series on the Life of Saint Teresa consists of eighteen paintings (and nbot thirteen, as Mebold surmised), each measuring two meters in height by two and a half in width. The small-format series on the life of the Saint consists of twenty paintings, each measuring 1.22 meters of height by 1.63 meters of width. Both series were produced by an unknown member of the Cuzco School of painting. Apparently, he was a follower of José Espinoza de los Monteros, the author of the Cuzco series on the life of Saint Teresa featured in Gallery 5. The large-format series was produced around 1690, whereas the small-format series, around 1694 (see Mebold 1987, loc. cit.).