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 and painted representations of marble and stone. 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, material culture, European studies, and transatlantic artistic interactions.
This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800.
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 Lluķs Borrassą
4. Spanish
Polychromed Sculpture in the Low Countries: A Journey through Art History and
Techniques
5. Pachecos Art of Painting: The Parangón and the Techniques of
Spanish SeventeenthCentury 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
Roldįn
9. Patrons, Sculptors, and Painters in EighteenthCentury Spain:
Polychroming Duque Cornejos Sculptures
10. More than Wood: Sculpture and
Blasphemy in SeventeenthCentury 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
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.
