Painting Beyond the Frame: Religious Murals of Colonial Peru
With the Spanish invasion and colonization of Peru in the 1530s, the visual arts played an integral role in the religious indoctrination of indigenous and Afro-descendant communities to Catholicism. Mural painting in particular became a favored medium in early evangelization efforts because of its r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2016
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Conversations
Year: 2016 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Roman Catholicism B Evangelism B Mural Painting |
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| Summary: | With the Spanish invasion and colonization of Peru in the 1530s, the visual arts played an integral role in the religious indoctrination of indigenous and Afro-descendant communities to Catholicism. Mural painting in particular became a favored medium in early evangelization efforts because of its relatively low cost and shorter execution time in comparison to multimedia pieces such as retablos (altarpieces) and polychrome sculptures. |
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| ISSN: | 2475-241X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Conversations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.22332/con.coll.2016.1 |