This exquisite oil painting depicts the Archangel Zadkiel.
An exquisite portrait, details are richly embellished with bronze 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. Bronze Leaf was used to accentuate finishing touches on this magnificent portrait.
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.
An exquisite portrait, details are richly embellished with bronze 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. Bronze Leaf was used to accentuate finishing touches on this magnificent portrait.
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.