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2018
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Emily A. Engel, « Artistic Invention as Tradition in the Portrait Painting of Late-Colonial Lima », Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, ID : 10670/1.w2gz1m
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"José Joaquín Bermejo, Cristóbal de Aguilar, Cristóbal de Lozano, andPedro Díaz are not household names outside of Peru. However, theseartists are among the most influential painters in the history of artof the eighteenth-century world. As the premier portrait painters inthe global capital of Lima, these artists made visible the identities ofpowerbrokers who helped to shape the Ibero-American empire in itstwilight. Collectively, Bermejo, Aguilar, Lozano, and Díaz facilitateda pictorial shift within a traditional genre that required archaismand repetition to maintain its cultural relevance. Their finished portraitsvisually demonstrate an emerging dissonance between artisticinnovation and pictorial tradition. Through an examination of theirlate eighteenth-century corpus of work, this article demonstrates howartists adjusted the representation of elite bodies in portraiture toreflect the subtle disintegration of a unified colonized social body."