In order to approach the image as an object of study in the history of art, Western thought has developed various interpretative and argumentative ways. has developed diverse interpretative and argumentative ways. It is for this reason that a wide range of discursive practices historiography of art we find a wide range of discursive practices that allow us to construct the historical discourse through which an artistic work is historical discourse through which an artistic work is explained. In the case of of the mid-seventeenth century painting entitled Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá, a painting from Rosario de Chiquinquirá, belonging to the Order of Preachers, we will resort to iconographic and iconological iconographic and iconological aspects that make possible an approach with a certain degree of "veracity", as Gombrich (1994) states in his study Symbolic images: studies on the art of the Renaissance. of the Renaissance.