El objeto pictórico colonial: la consistencia de una forma de ser pintura

The proposal is to look again at colonial paintings as exceptional pictorial objects. These tend to be interpreted in terms of the traditional European school which seeks to present an ideal image that denies its material consistency. Through a series of paintings that were commissioned and travelled from Cuzco; it is expected to prove a pictorial act that reveals the circumstances and chronology of its execution in order to present an image that is shown through an explicit materiality. At the end of this acknowledgment, a question is raised on how this European tradition determines the conservator-restorer, reproducing a way of looking and interpreting these colonial objects, which leads to hide the evidences of a pictorial practice that is defined and differentiated by certain anomalous characteristics.