 Nicario Jiménez Quispe (Quispe is his mother’s name) is a master artisan of the craft of making retablos.He was born in 1957 in a small highland Andean village near Ayacucho, and learned how to make "retablos" from his father and other skilled craftsmen.He has studied at the University of San Marcos in Lima, and has exhibited his retablos in Peru and abroad in several international competitions.