 The earliest Baroque sculptor and architect to work in Latin America was Pedro de Noguera (1580-) , who was born in Barcelona and apprenticed in Seville.In 1619 he moved to the Viceroyalty of Peru, where, with Martín Alonso de Mesa, he sculpted the Baroque choir stalls of the Cathedral Basilica of Lima (1619-).The Baroque style of sculpture was transported to other parts of Latin America by Spanish and Portuguese missionaries in the 18th century, who commissioned local artists.