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| Type of Object: | Painting |
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| Materials: | Oil on canvas |
| Measurements: | 60 cm. x 90 cm. |
| Date or Period: | Colonial (1533-1825) |
| Maker: | Colonial |
| Designated List Section: | VII C Colonial and Republican Religious Art -- Oil Paintings |
| Date of Import Restriction: | 12/07/01 |
| Photograph: | Centro de Documentación y Catalogación - Viceministerio de Cultura |
| Copyright: | Centro de Documentación y Catalogación - Viceministerio de Cultura |
| Description of Designated List Category Subject to Import Restrictions: | |
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| Oil paintings include depictions of patron saints (santos/santas), angels, Christ, the Virgin Mary, the apostles, and the Holy Family on wood, metal, canvas (lienzo), and other cloth. With or without frame. The archangel is a central theme. Oil painting is found on objects as small as reliquaries (3 cm.), mid-sized canvas (one square meter), or wall-sized renditions. Paintings like this representing the male saints are usually of middle age men, young or old men dressed in different manners. Sometimes they wear the habit of a the religious group, others are dressed in a tunic and cape or different kind of clothing. They can be praying, standing or kneeling. The iconography of Santiago --Saint James-- is very well known during the Colonial period in Bolivia. Saint James is often depicted with a beard and black hair, wearing a hat and riding a horse. He is sometimes depicted in contemporary dress. | |
| Keywords: | |
| oil painting, religious imagery, santo, |
