Finding Caspicara

Finding Caspicara
Author: Susan Verdi Webster
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1477329749

An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic production of the city’s workshops and its widespread commerce of polychrome sculptures. Who is Caspicara? Nothing is known of Caspicara’s life, and not a single sculpture has been documented as his work. Yet traditional histories laud him as a prolific Indigenous sculptor in eighteenth-century Quito who created exquisite polychrome figures and became a national artistic icon. Drawing on extensive archival, historical, and object research, Susan Verdi Webster peels away layers of historiographical fabrication to reveal what we do and do not know about Caspicara and his work. Rather than being a solitary master, Caspicara collaborated with other, largely Indigenous artists in Quito’s protoindustrial workshops, manufacturing sculptures now credited to him alone. The high quality of Quito sculptures produced by anonymous artists turned the city into a hub of wide-ranging commerce in religious icons. The art world and post-independence Ecuadorians have lionized the one named sculptor, Caspicara, according to the Western model of the artist-genius, amplifying the market for works bearing his name and creating a national hero on par with European masters. Lost in this process were the artists themselves. Webster returns to their world, detailing their methods and labor and, for the first time, documenting a sculpture made by Caspicara.

Lies/Mentiras

Lies/Mentiras
Author: Agustín S. Contin
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1631351834

For too many centuries, the Catholic Church has been teaching lies to the innocent people who apparently are unable to think clearly for themselves. Catholic clergymen pretend to be "representatives of God," with power to forgive the sins of other human beings, and also to transform the host, and the wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ, in order for the faithful to eat and drink it as cannibals. They also pretend that their mass is a repetition of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, when Jesus died and resurrected almost two thousand years ago. They are also teaching several other lies, wanting people to accept the great number of "saints" and "virgins," who really are just dead people. God the Father forbids us to communicate with dead persons, without exception. The most important lies are refuted in this book, not by the author, but by the Bible and the Gospels, because The Bible never lies. Durante muchos siglos, la Iglesia Catolica ha ensenado mentiras a personas inocentes, incapaces de pensar por si mismas. Los clerigos catolicos pretenden ser "representantes de Dios," con poder para perdonar pecados a otros, asi como para transformar la hostia y el vino en el cuerpo y la sangre de Jesucristo, para que los fieles los devoren como canibales. Pretenden que su misa es una repeticion del sacrificio del Senor en la cruz, cuando Jesus murio y resucito hace casi dos mil anos. Tambien ensenan varias otras mentiras, esperando que todos acepten la gran cantidad de "santos" y "virgenes," que en realidad son personas muertas. Dios Padre nos prohibe comunicarnos con los muertos, sin excepciones. En este libro se refutan las mentiras mas importantes. No lo hace el autor mismo, sino la Biblia y los Evangelios porque La Biblia nunca miente.

Collections of Painting in Madrid, 1601–1755 (Parts 1 and 2)

Collections of Painting in Madrid, 1601–1755 (Parts 1 and 2)
Author: Marcus B. Burke
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 1810
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892364963

This two-part book on collections of paintings in Madrid is part of the series Documents for the History of Collecting, Spanish Inventories 1, which presents volumes of art historical information based on archival records. One hundred forty inventories of noble and middle-class collections of art in Madrid are accompanied by two essays describing the taste and cultural atmosphere of Madrid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.