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Peruvian Icon Painting
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This highly ornate painting was modernly created in Peruvian Cusco Folk Art Oil
Painting style. The Cusco School of artwork is a Roman Catholic artistic tradition based
in Cusco, Peru during the Colonial period from the 16th to the 18th Centuries.
Description
(anonymous artist) Leslie
This highly ornate painting was modernly created in Peruvian Cusco Folk Art Oil
Painting style. The Cusco School of artwork is a Roman Catholic artistic tradition based
in Cusco, Peru during the Colonial period from the 16th to the 18th Centuries. The
European influence in these paintings came from the Spanish who tried to convert the
Incas to Catholicism. Cusco Paintings are characterized by their exclusive use of
religious images, unique perspective, and the predominance of red, yellow, and earth
colors as well as the use of gold leaf. The subjects are usually depicted in native flora
and fauna as the backdrop; some incorporate traditional Incan attire. Most of the original
paintings in this artistic school were created anonymously because of Pre-Columbian
traditions that define art as communal. 100% Hand Painted oil pain on canvas.
