Cusco School. Colonial Paintings with 24 karat Gold

The Cuzco school is characterized by being original and its great artistic value. Began in the city of Cusco, Peru.

It is a fusion of European art and artistic expression of the mestizos and Indians to incorporate their vision of the world.

This school begins during the Viceroyalty of Peru with a predominantly European style but the participation of Indian and mestizo painters by the end of the seventeenth century, makes the Cuzco school to take its own characteristics. This painting is called "Cusco School", because it was by made hands of local artists, and especially because it distances itself from the influence of prevailing currents in European art and follows his own path.

This art of Cuzco , in the thematic issues of interest in local customs, such as the procession of Corpus Christi, and the presence for the first time of the Andean flora and fauna. Also, a series of portraits of Indians and caciques of heraldic and genealogical tables. With regard to technical, there is a misunderstanding of the perspective with a fragmentation of space in multiple concurrent places or compartmentalized scenes. New solutions to the color era, with the preference for the colors are another typical feature of this painting style.

In our store we have reproductions of paintings from the Cuzco school made in gold leaf. The technique of gold leaf is the application of pieces of 24 karat gold on the image of the painting.

We have themes such as the virgin milk, virgin tenderness, the virgin of the spoon, Santa Rosa de Lima and many more.