Spanish Colonial Antiques Latin American Art

Relicarios are finely crafted, bi-faced lockets of gold or silver artifacts of the Spanish Colonial era in Latin America. These sometimes, exquisite jewels are bi-faced pendants that contain devotional imagery protected by glass. The images may be miniature paintings on vellum, nacre, alabaster, copper, or ivory; prints; tiny sculptures of boxwood, ivory, alabaster, or tagua; or molded imagery in pastas of corn pith, a potato and plaster mixture, or clay. Although tons of relics were imported from Europe...

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