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imagineros (sculptors)


Identification code: 300311327



Alternative term/s

  • imaginero

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Sculptors in colonial Latin America who created religious figures, usually representations of Christ, the Virgin, saints and angels for altars, processions, nativity, and passion scenes. Imagineros worked with a variety of materials including stone, bone, ceramic and shell, but primarily with polychromed wood.

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