17th Century, Oil on Canvas with Gold Leaf, Virgin of the Little Angels

N. S de Guadalupe Patron and Virgin of Mexico Original Oil painting on Copper Wooden frame, Charles IV style Puebla J. Lecuona. 20Th Century Guadalupe, mother Virgin of all ...

About the Virgin of Chiquinquirá Virgin of Chiquinquirá, carrying baby Jesus and a marshal cane on his hand. On her sides, San Antonio de Padua, and Saint Andrew, apostle, with the X-shaped cross, sign of his martyrdom.. Her Story Dominican friars carried evangelization expeditions into the central region of Colombia. In 1560 Antón de Santana, Spanish gentleman obtained commission to build a house with different uses, the administration of settlers, indigenous people and slaves; he further build a chapel for religious services in Suta, Fray Andrés Jadraque, saw the need to put a painting of the Virgen del Rosario...

This beautiful piece emerged from the graphic compendium Costumes civils, militaires et religieux, du Mexique civil, work of the renowned Italian artist Claudio Linati (1 February 1790 – 11 December 1832), written in French and printed in Brussels in 1828. This original and signed watercolor is the outcome of Linati’s artistic values and expert lithographic technique. In words of the author “I have chosen the most elegant gears, as well as the most bizarre, like the one on this plate, which may contrast by its severity with the alluring of the more feathery costume of the palencanas. (…) The basket carried by the woman is carefully made of woven cane. For a better characterization of the country, this young native female carries an anona, known among the Spaniards as pineapple due to its similarities with the pinecone”. This plate is the sole image of the style composition prevailing in Costumes civils, militaires et religieux, du Mexique civil consisting in precise details of costume and material culture, as can be recognized in the representation where even though the female figure is placed in the foreground, the focus of the image falls into gear: a blue checkered shawl and skirt.

It is a beautiful carved stone known as Huamanga stone, endemic of the Zone of Ayacucho, Viceroyalty of Peru. With a refined regional touch and loaded of pre-Columbian flavor as Chinese, It represents the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus with God Father...

Spanish colonial Mexican school 18th century Oil on canvas Measures: 177 x 11 cms.

A fine early 19th Century painting of the Virgin Mary in prayer between two saints, painted in the artistic centers of Cuzco and the Altiplano r...

An outstandig early 18th Century Spanish Colonial oil on canvas depicting Mary and The Holy Trinity, or "Mary Queen of Heaven". You can notice th...

Remarkable Spanish colonial late 18th/early 19th-century Cuzco school painting of Madonna and Child, or Virgin Mary. Oil on canvas Cuzco school painting with a desirable aged patina ...