This paper deals with some economic and social aspects of the official sculptors and assemblers who worked in workshops in Lima during the first half of the seventeenth century. The information provided comes from colonial documentation, such as labor contracts, and various documents, which are presented in a systematic way. Firstly, the text focuses on the labor relations between the official and the master owner of the workshop, working conditions, financial hardships, and lawsuits arising from the exercise of their trade. Two specific cases will be studied in the context of the Guild corporation to which they belonged. The professional relations between them (and between them and the Guild) help us better understand the sculptory events ...