El diseño de Juan Bautista Vázquez “el Viejo” para la custodia procesional de Tunja (Colombia)
- Palomero Páramo, Jesús
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This article expands the corpus of drawings by Juan Bautista Vázquez ‘the Elder’ that I had the pleasure of inaugurating in 1983 on the pages of BSAA. A new document shows the appearance of the former processional monstrance of Tunja (Colombia), and proves how far its design was indebted to Sevillian liturgical silverwork, whose Renaissance multi-storey baldachin-structures are translated into gilded wood in Vázquez’s work. Quite useful is the recommendation made to the sculptor, asking him to send the monstrance dismantled inside boxes weighing no more than five arrobas, so that they could be easily transported on canoes through the Magdalena River.El presente artículo amplía el corpus de dibujos de Juan Bautista Vázquez “el Viejo” que tuv...