![]() 1548-1717) and later The Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717–1819).Įarly colonial period Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá (flanked by St. ![]() Painting in the colonial period reflected the power and prestige of the Catholic Church and the Spanish aristocracy in Colombia or as it was then known The New Kingdom of Granada (c. Santander DepartmentĬolombian colonial art includes altar wood carving masterpieces and the statues for religious processions. Also in the tombs were found funeral urns, bowls, and pitchers.Ĭhimitá petrographs, circa 1300 B.C. Related to the San Agustín culture were the inhabitants of Tierradentro (“inner land”, so called because of its inaccessibility) who created over one hundred and fifty underground tombs, or hypogea their walls and ceilings were richly decorated with geometric forms recalling the interior of palm huts. Some of these have been up to five meters high. They erected raised ceremonial centres, sarcophagi, and large stone monoliths depicting anthropomorphic and zoomorphhic forms out of stone. Roughly between 200 BCE and 800 CE, the San Agustín culture, masters of stonecutting, entered its “classical period". The Museo del Oro in Bogotá displays the most important collection of pre-Columbian gold handicraft in the Americas. One of the most valued artifacts of Pre-Columbian goldwork is the so-called Poporo Quimbaya, a small (23.5 × 11.4 cm), hollow, devotional object (used to mambeo or coca leaf chewing ritual) made of gold whose aesthetic harmony, simple elegance, and mathematical symmetry are striking and almost modern. Gold would play a pivotal role in luring the Spanish to the area now called Colombia during the 16th century (See: El Dorado). The earliest examples of gold craftsmanship have been attributed to the Tumaco people of the Pacific coast and date to around 325 BCE. Phytomorphic (fruit-shaped) lime container, gold, 300 BCE – 1000 CE Goldwork These vessels were also used to hold relics and jewelry belonging to the deceased. Vessels were created for use in secondary burial, or the practice of allowing the flesh to decompose and then reburying the bones. The Piartal culture (750–1250 AD) in the mountainous region on the Colombia–Ecuador border produced unique methods of producing pottery as well as patterns inspired by animal or snake skin. Sand-tempered coiled ceramics have also been found at Puerto Hormiga. The fiber-tempered pottery at San Jacinto is described as "well-made". The fiber-tempered pottery at Puerto Hormiga was "crude", formed from a single lump of clay. Fiber-tempered ceramics at Monsú have been dated to 5940 radiocarbon years before present. Fiber- tempered ceramics associated with shell middens appeared at sites such as Puerto Hormiga, Monsú, Puerto Chacho, and San Jacinto by 3100 BC. There is archaeological evidence that ceramics were produced on Colombia's Caribbean coast earlier than anywhere in the Americas outside of the lower Amazon Basin. Perhaps the most internationally acclaimed Colombian artist is painter and sculptor Fernando Botero (1932). Colombian art has 3500 years of history and covers a wide range of media and styles ranging from Spanish Baroque devotional painting to Quimbaya gold craftwork to the "lyrical americanism" of painter Alejandro Obregón (1920–1992).
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