Gonzalo Pizarro
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Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso was a Spanish conquistador. He was the younger paternal half brother of Francisco Pizarro, who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Pizarro was the illegitimate son of
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Gonzalo Pizarro sailing in Perú. Year of work:1554
Cura Ocllo
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Cura Ocllo was an Inca queen consort, or coya, as the wife and full sister of the Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui, whose reign over the Inca Empire began in 1533. During the Spanish conquest of the I
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…Manco Inca Yupanqui. Manco was angered by the conduct of the Spaniards towards Incan women, especially after Gonzalo raped his queen and sister-wife Cura Ocllo. According to Fernández de Oviedo, Hernando Pizarro, Juan Pizarro and Gonzalo Pizarro "left no one single woman or sister of his [Manco's] unviolated…
Statue of Ocllo in Ollantaytambo, Peru, 2017