1st Edition

Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World 1200–1800

Edited By Ilenia Colón Mendoza, Lisandra Estevez Copyright 2024
208 Pages 25 Color & 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 25 Color & 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 25 Color & 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800. Taking a trans-cultural approach, the book studies the production of polychrome sculptures, panels, and altarpieces, as well as colored terracotta. The book includes chapters on treatises and contracts that reveal specific use of pigments, distribution of workshops,... Read more

Part 1 Pigments, Color, and the Paragone

1. "The Color to Imitate a Man": On the Meaning of Flesh Tones on Panel Paintings from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages

Esther Wipfler

2. The Colors of the Virgin: Romanesque Polychrome Wood Sculptures in Italy and a Question about Azurite

Grazia Maria Fachechi

3. Naming Blue Pigments and Colors in Medieval Catalonia: The Case of Lluís Borrassà

Cristina Morilla

4. Spanish Polychromed Sculpture in the Low Countries: A Journey through Art History and Techniques

Géraldine Patigny

5. Pacheco’s Art of Painting: The Parangón and the Techniques of Spanish Seventeenth‑Century Polychrome Sculpture

Ilenia Colón Mendoza

Part 2 Sculptures in Context

6. Statue Painting in Colonial Andes: ‘Indian’ Virgins and Resacralization of the Religious Landscape

Mariana Zinni [Translated by Anthony Harb]

7. Worms Cannot Eat Stone: The Pugliese Presepe and the Materiality of Devotion in Early Modern Puglia

Lindsay Sheedy

8. Faith, Spectacle, and the Polychromed Processional Figures of Luis Antonio de los Arcos and Luisa Roldán

Catherine Hall‑Van Den Elsen

9. Patrons, Sculptors, and Painters in Eighteenth‑Century Spain: Polychroming Duque Cornejo’s Sculptures

Manuel García Luque

10. More than Wood: Sculpture and Blasphemy in Seventeenth‑Century New Spain

Brett Lazer

11. The Retablos of Mani: The Convergence of Maya and Spanish Art

C. Cody Barteet

12. Artists, Techniques, and Sacred Materials: Revisiting the Case of the Christ of Ixmiquilpan

Pablo F. Amador Marrero and Patricia Díaz Cayeros

Biography

Ilenia Colón Mendoza is Professor of Art History at the School of Visual Arts and Design of the University of Central Florida, USA.

Lisandra Estevez is Associate Professor of Art History at Winston-Salem State University, USA.