Holy Family~Catholic Icon Cusco Vintage Oil Painting

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Superb Cusco Cuzco School Painting Click an Image to Enlarge PRODUCT INFORMATION Description Breathtaking arrival to our stock ! A truly magnificent piece we have recently managed to acquire in the city of Cusco.A really impressive painting we have now available to add to our wide variety of colonial and religious oils. An incredible depiction, this magnificent oil painting will definitely leave you in awe as soon as you lay eyes on it. The quality is outstanding, something you must see in person to fully appreciate its dimension. Composition and rich colors are absolutely remarkable. A wonderful addition to our team of great masters of the Cusco School of Painting, the author of this oil has accomplished a superb technique and incredible skills to be able to create such a masterpiece. An exhibition of the utmost beauty and singularity.This unique oil will make a valuable and rare asset to any art collection, so don't hesitate and start bidding right now, as we are offering this remarkable piece at a low introductory price. This oil painting on canvas depicts the Holy Family.These figures are abstracted from an early background. The painting embodies a powerful symbolic concept that had to be formulated for the people of the New World-The Heavenly and Earthly Trinity.Both the Mother on the left and Joseph on the right gesture toward the Child. The same radiant halo surrounds all three heads. Mary is clothed in the three mystic garments, and Joseph carries a spray of easter lilies, favorite for all religious festivities and the symbol of chastity.Look at the exquisite facial features and the color composition, it is just simply amazing. Golden details on high-relief can be appreciated on this unique painting.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.Don't miss this chance to acquire a superb piece of colonial art at an unbeatable price and start bidding now on this truly super rare painting !!Painting arrives rolled in a tube.Size 16"H x 12"W Approx. Weight 0.13 lb. Materials Oil On Canvas Suggested Retail Price $ 145.00 Item Code 301 PAYMENT INFORMATION Our PayPal email is ( ). If you pay with Paypal, please use eBay Checkout to make easier for you the payment process. If you buy more than 1 item, please e-mail us asking for a combined shipping/handling fee, then a consolidated invoice for all the items you have won will be sent. If a payment for an item is not received after 7 days, we will send a last payment reminder. If we still don't receive the payment after 3 days from that last payment reminder, we will file a Non-Paying-Buyer Alert on eBay, in order to recover the fees charged for every item we sell. Florida residents please add 7% sales tax. If you are a FL resident and forget to add the tax in the payment, your order will not be processed. SHIPPING/HANDLING INFORMATION Shipping/handling within the continental US is $7.99 . Shipping to Canada is $9.99 . Rest of the world shipping is $14.99 . We combine shipping... read more

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