Jorge Rivas

The main text by Jorge Rivas, curator of the exposition, explores the diversity of Venezuelan small-format religious painting from the colonial period, and makes clear the richness and variety of iconographic pictorial production in each one of the regions of the country, emphasizing the importance of religion in daily life during the Spanish period.Throughout the essay, one visits the most active artistic centers of the time: Tocuyo, Caracas, and Mérida.Through these small and intimate objects of art, laboriously worked, the reader is led to understand the characteristics of devotional painting in our country, and also becomes acquainted with the customs, traditions, and rites of the period.

This publication contains, in addition to the essay by Jorge Rivas, Curator of Colonial Art of the Colección Cisneros, color and black and white reproductions of the works shown.
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Jorge Rivas
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Jorge Rivas, Curator of Colonial Art of the Colección Cisneros, contextualizes and analyzes each one of the pieces reproduced in color in this publication, precisely describing the most important features of the paintings, furnishings, and religious objects belonging to this period of Venezuelan art.

Jorge Rivas, Colonial Art

The curator is Jorge F. Rivas, the CPPC's Colonial Art specialist.
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These are followed by essays on Venezuelan colonial art by Mr. Rivas and one on Dominican colonial painting by renowned Dominican art historian Maria Ugarte.

The main text by Jorge Rivas, curator of the exposition, explores the diversity of Venezuelan small-format religious painting from the colonial period, and makes clear the richness and variety of iconographic pictorial production in each one of the regions of the country, emphasizing the importance of religion in daily life during the Spanish period. Throughout the essay, one visits the most active artistic centers of the time: Tocuyo, Caracas, and Mérida. Through these small and intimate objects of art, laboriously worked, the reader is led to understand the characteristics of devotional painting in our country, and also becomes acquainted with the customs, traditions, and rites of the period.

This publication contains, in addition to the essay by Jorge Rivas, Curator of Colonial Art of the Colección Cisneros, color and black and white reproductions of the works shown.
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Jorge Rivas
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Jorge Rivas, Curator of Colonial Art of the Colección Cisneros, contextualizes and analyzes each one of the pieces reproduced in color in this publication, precisely describing the most important features of the paintings, furnishings, and religious objects belonging to this period of Venezuelan art.

Jorge Rivas, curator of colonial art of the Fundación Cisneros and member of the curatorial team of the exhibition Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros at the Philadelphia Art Museum, will discuss how the progressive westernization of the American continent after the Spanish arrival during the sixteenth century resulted in the implantation of the European arts and crafts tradition, including cabinetmaking, in the conquered land.

The Royal Oak Foundation has given a grant to Jorge Rivas, the Colonial Art Curator at the Fundacion Cisneros in Caracas, Venezuela.He is also doing research on European cabinetmakers active in Venezuela in the first half of the 19th century.