Blue Pigments in South American Colonial Paintings

SELDES, ALICIA; BURUCÚA, JOSÉ; MARTA MAIER; GONZALO ABAD; ANDREA JÁUREGUI; GABRIELA SIRACUSANO

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION

AIC

Lugar: Washington; Año: 1999 vol. 38 p. 100 - 123

0197-1360

This article shows the results reached by an interdisciplinary team of chemists and art historians following studies of the use of blue pigments in a group of 106 paintings done in the Andes region during the colonial period (1610?1780). It describes the methods employed and the results obtained in the analysis of these pigments, along with important observations on the historical dimension of the practices developed by South American artists of that period.