THE QUEROS AND THE COLONIAL IMAGINARY ANDINA
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https://doi.org/10.15381/arqueolsoc.2015n29.e12238Keywords:
Colonial quero wooden cups (16th-18th Century A.D.), Colonial Andean imaginary, Medieval Bestiary.Abstract
The article treats about the pictorial-thematic transformation suffered in the polychromatic quero wooden cups –llimpisccaqueros- as result of the Spanish colonization in the South American Andes from 16th century A.D. to the 18th century A.D., in special: it will focus in the figurative, semantic and contents impact of the European classic and Renaissance imaginaries (of the Medieval Bestiary fabulous creatures) in the construction of Colonial Andean imaginary painted and looked on the“vasos de palo”. In effect the Francisco Pizarro’s hosts arrival in the Andes (in 1532 A.D.) means, from a pictorial standpoint, the advent of different techniques, conventions and visual signifiers proceeded to the principal European plastics art of the epoch (the Renaissance and Mannerism principally). Thus, the local fabulous figures based in European classic and Renaissance esthetic models drawing on the Colonial llimpisccaqueros (as sirens, centaurs, among others) attempted to fill the symbolic and ceremonial vacuum left by the annihilation of the local huacas of inca appearance, on purpose to the Spanish colonization.
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