Divine Virgin Mary Original Colonial Cuzco Peru Folk Art Oil Painting On Canvas
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We are very proud to offer this incredible oil painting that has just arrived from the andean highland.
This impressive oil painting depicts the Divine Virgin Mary.
An exquisite portrait, details are richly embellished with golden leaf, an indicative of the artists of the Cusco School of Painting.
Look at the exquisite facial features and the color composition, it is just simply amazing . This remarkable painting has some subtle high-relief details. The rich estofado patterned tooling in golden leaf, lends splendor as well as hieratic dignity to this piece.
The history of the Peruvian painting has its origins at the colonial era. The Spanish painters who arrived at the Viceroyalty of Peru taught their techniques to the local artists, and they began to shape in its linen cloths its own representations, proposing a new iconographic interpretation of the Peruvian reality. The catholic divinities were adapted to indigenous sensitivity and gave like result an own and singular way that had its maxim expression in the "School of Cusco Painting" ( La Escuela Cusqueña), during centuries XVII and XVIII.
This painting has been done in the style of the works of La Escuela Cusqueña, the history of which is traced to the 17th century. Originally influenced by Spanish and Italian artists, this school was comissioned to paint sacred art in churches and monasteries throughout the Peruvian city of Cusco after the area was devastated by an earthquake in 1650. The collected efforts of numerous artists gradually evolved into a unique yet harmonious and consistent style, devoid of individualism.
Painting arrives rolled in a tube.
This impressive oil painting depicts the Divine Virgin Mary.
An exquisite portrait, details are richly embellished with golden leaf, an indicative of the artists of the Cusco School of Painting.
Look at the exquisite facial features and the color composition, it is just simply amazing . This remarkable painting has some subtle high-relief details. The rich estofado patterned tooling in golden leaf, lends splendor as well as hieratic dignity to this piece.
The history of the Peruvian painting has its origins at the colonial era. The Spanish painters who arrived at the Viceroyalty of Peru taught their techniques to the local artists, and they began to shape in its linen cloths its own representations, proposing a new iconographic interpretation of the Peruvian reality. The catholic divinities were adapted to indigenous sensitivity and gave like result an own and singular way that had its maxim expression in the "School of Cusco Painting" ( La Escuela Cusqueña), during centuries XVII and XVIII.
This painting has been done in the style of the works of La Escuela Cusqueña, the history of which is traced to the 17th century. Originally influenced by Spanish and Italian artists, this school was comissioned to paint sacred art in churches and monasteries throughout the Peruvian city of Cusco after the area was devastated by an earthquake in 1650. The collected efforts of numerous artists gradually evolved into a unique yet harmonious and consistent style, devoid of individualism.
Painting arrives rolled in a tube.
- Original Oil Painting On Canvas
- Imported from Peru
- Divine Virgin Mary
- 100% Hand Painted (Not a print, not a poster, not a transfer of Canvas)
- Size: 16" x 12". Unframed painting arrives unstretched and rolled in a tube
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