Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World

1200-1800
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-78457-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

Reihe: Visual Culture in Early Modernity

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, collaborations between specialized artists, and artistic programs centered on the use of color as an agent.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, art conservation, early modern history, sculpture, colonialism, material culture, and European studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colón Mendoza, Ilenia

Estevez, Lisandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 2. The Colors of the Virgin: Romanesque Polychrome Wood Sculptures in Italy and a Question about Azurite 3. Naming Blue Pigments and Colors in Medieval Catalonia: The Case of Lluís Borrassà 4. Spanish Polychromed Sculpture in the Low Countries: A Journey through Art History and Techniques 5. Pacheco’s Art of Painting: The Parangón and the Techniques of Spanish Seventeenth-Century Polychrome Sculpture Part 2 Sculptures in Context 6. Statue Painting in Colonial Andes: ‘Indian’ Virgins and Resacralization of the Religious Landscape 7. Worms Cannot Eat Stone: The Pugliese Presepe and the Materiality of Devotion in Early Modern Puglia 8. Faith, Spectacle, and the Polychromed Processional Figures of Luis Antonio de los Arcos and Luisa Roldán 9. Patrons, Sculptors, and Painters in Eighteenth-Century Spain: Polychroming Duque Cornejo’s Sculptures 10. More than Wood: Sculpture and Blasphemy in Seventeenth-Century New Spain 11. The Retablos of Mani: The Convergence of Maya and Spanish Art 12. Artists, Techniques, and Sacred Materials: Revisiting the Case of the Christ of Ixmiquilpan

Über Autor(innen)

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.