of one of the two largest religious processions on Good Friday in Ecuador, which brings together popular strata, in an act of curucuhos and penitents, in the purest medieval style, evoking the Spanish Seville. The two side naves of the church are filled with sculptures of saints placed on altarpieces covered in gold leaf, before whom hundreds of faithful kneel every day to implore miraculous "intercessions". Painting The monastic and clerical complex of San Francisco is also an enormous art gallery in which dozens of paintings by famous Quitoan and European painters are exhibited; but its main attraction lies in the works belonging to the Colonial Quito School of Art, a style that was born in the courtyards of this convent, and whose fame transcended borders and today can be found in important museums around the world. Among the most relevant pictorial works of San Francisco, we have: The convent also keeps a series of 16 easel paintings exhibited in the zaguan, corresponding to the 17th century and attributed to Miguel de Santiago. The series known as The life of Saint Francis of Assisi, for its part, is a collection of 27 large easel canvases attributed to different artists, which are located in the corridors of the main cloister. See also List of buildings in Quito References Roman Catholic churches in Quito 1535 establishments in the Spanish Empire Roman Catholic churches completed in 1650 Franciscan convents Renaissance architecture in Ecuador Baroque buildings in Ecuador Convents of the Catholic Church in South America