Silverworks from Viceregal Peru : for God and country

Author

Egan, Martha J.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Latin American art. 1994, Num. 1, Vol. 6, 25-28, 5 ill. ( 3 col.)

ISSN

1042-9808

Abstract (en)

Brief account of silversmithing in Spanish South America in the 16th and 17th cs.; notes that a rare combination of circumstances--the abundance of precious metals proceeding from Potosí and other mining towns; the patronage and material aspirations of an extremely wealthy clientele; and a population of plateros who benefited from the sophisticated European, indigenous, Moorish, and African metalsmithing traditions that converged in viceregal Peru--produced a climate in which the silversmith's art was developed to a degree unequaled in human history. Also notes the scarcity of surviving objects.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Decorative arts -- Metalwork -- Peru
• Goldsmithing
• Peru, viceroyalty of
• 1500-1700
• Silver (objects)
• Technique
• Potosí (BOL)
• Colonial
• Spain

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Arts décoratifs -- Arts du métal -- Pérou
• Orfèvrerie
• Pérou, vice-royaume du
• 1500-1700
• Argenterie
• Technique
• Potosí (BOL)
• Colonial (art)
• Espagne

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950401-00312223

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