Y si no hubiésemos tenido políticos intolerantes y obsesionados con borrar por la fuerza el catolicismo en México, llevando al país a las tristemente conocidas "guerras cristeras" México seguiría lleno de bellísimas iglesias coloniales..si ya antes en la Revolución mexicana se quemaron cientos y cientos(probablemente incluso miles)de iglesias coloniales con sus irremplazables retablos platerescos,barrocos y neoclásicos,encima en los años 20 y 30 vino otra ola anticatólica que arrasó con otras tantas miles de iglesias por todo el país,encima era una minoría fanatizada(los llamados camisas rojas)los que entraban a las iglesias...sacaban todas las imágenes de santos y vírgenes y los amontonaban todos en mitad de las plazas donde allí mismo les prendían fuego...sólo Dios sabe la cantidad de obras de arte de la mejor calidad que se debió de perder para siempre y que jamás de los jamases los mexicanos podremos disfrutar(al menos los que tenemos esa sensibilidad estética,artística,cultural e histórica por nuestro pasado y riqueza patrimonial).Por desgracia lo que ahora nos queda es una triste insignificancia comparado con lo que debió de haber ya que sólo en la Ciudad de México en el Siglo XVIII había más de 25 conventos(sólo de monjas) y otros tantos de frailes,a eso hay que sumarle todas las decenas y decenas de parroquias,hospitales,capillas(todos esos edificios contaban con su respectivo templo y sus altares laterales) y por supuesto la enorme y grandiosa catedral...México(la Nueva España) en su mejor momento fue una prolongación exacta de España pero al otro lado del Atlántico y no cabe la menor duda de que debió estar a la altura de regiones españolas como la bellísima e incomparable Andalucía,en ciudades como Sevilla aún a día de hoy quedan más de cien iglesias centenarias en pié perfectamente conservadas...con sus más de mil retablos censados y decenas de miles de tallas policromadas y estofadas de los mejores artistas del barroco sevillano...digo todo ésto sobre Sevilla y Andalucía porque por suerte(y ahora por desgracia) nosotros en México fuimos una copia exacta de Andalucía tanto en cantidad como en calidad de nuestras iglesias,conventos,catedrales,etc...la pena es que no hemos sabido conservarlo,es cierto que comparado con el resto de países hispanoamericanos somos junto a Perú el que más arte sacro conservamos,sólo espero que lo que nos queda no siga disminuyendo por la desidia de los políticos,por los terremotos o por los atentados contra el arte sacro católico (como ya está pasando en países como Chile, Francia,Canadá,etc...)
There is a final step left in the spanish polychrome sculpture: The burnish of the oil paint with a lamb's bladder in order to smooth the surface left by the brush when you paint with oil. In spanish it's called: "Bruñido con vejiga de cordero". Anyway, this video is awesome and very didactic.
This polychromed sculpture techniques has been improved since Arcaic Mediterranean times. In fact this "imaginería" (the spanish name for this kind of sculptures) is direct inheritance of the "xoanon" (Ancient Greece monumental sculptures of deities made of wood and ivory, realistically painted, gilded and dressed in real clothes).
Amazing, the technique, the patience and time involved, the training, the tools. And this video was so well done, down to the amazing 3D rendering of the sculpture.
Thank you very much, It has really inspired me to refine my studies on pigments and applications there of. As an artist I am obsessed with color and how to preserve it while applying it to works, and have had little fortune in academic structure. That said, I really look forward to liberating myself of the burden of paying for paint which I feel in many ways cheapens the true value of the true craft of artistry. :D
That makes sense why Spanish Polychrome Sculpture can be fall under the "Uncanny Valley" level... they're really too realistic and creepy at some point, but beautiful at the same time. hmmm, what do you guys think?
I don't think they are creepy. Contrary to wax sculpture you never confuse them with real characters, no matter how realistic they try to be. We need to remember that original Greek sculptures were also polychrome.
Hispanic religious statues are a beloved and esteemed art form here in the Philippines. This carved type is called "de tallado" or "in the round", versus clothed mannequin-style saints. The heads and hands are sometimes made in one piece, of wood and for richer patrons, ivory. Encarna ("fleshing") and estofado (for the clothes) add to the realism and help devotees concentrate on the spiritual message of the image. Usually a Taller here is like the one that produced this image - family-run or a group of associates. They make religious images from mass-produced ones to bespoke works with gold-plated accessories and silk vestments that cost up to hundreds or thousands of dollars.
finally!.....i've been looking for this....now, i can understand how the Estofado technique is made... There are a lot of Estofado Santo sculptures here in the Philippines... and nobody knows the technique...
What a shame many many churches from the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines disappeared after the many earthquakes occurred in the archipielago throughout the centuries...but the worst of all was the bombing and complete destruction of the intramuros section(or colonial Manila) by the americans in WW2.
@jdmosaics Hi! Polychrome is a very antique technique of painting usually used on wood. Its paints are made of mineral pigments added a glue vehicle. The wood to be carved is so soft: in Brazil we employ cedar or mahogany. Why I know that? Because this is my job...see Olga Tukoff on web. Thanks for the beautiful and interesting video!
WOW!! This is what I would call ART on how to make ART. Incredible 3D modelling, and verry well put together, informative, easy to understand, and verry nice to look at =) Thanx 4 uploading =) Subbed & thumbed up ;)
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A very interesting video. It's a great pity the audio has gone out of sinc, as it ends abruptly, while the video runs in "real time." I hope there's a way to fix that.
Are they recreating a damaged piece? A lost piece? What are we supposed to gain by this demonstration of the least expensive and most efficient way to imitate ancient sculpture?
The original carved hand is smaller than life and more finely detailed hand. The copy is bigger, bigger is easier. Modern carve tools aren't good enough.
What type of wood is used for these sculptures? I use basswood myself-plenty of that in the northern US-but I'm curious what they used here. Was it local woods or imported?
I always wondered how these sculptures were made. Now I know. It is a honour we have sculptures like that in Mexico :)
Y si no hubiésemos tenido políticos intolerantes y obsesionados con borrar por la fuerza el catolicismo en México, llevando al país a las tristemente conocidas "guerras cristeras" México seguiría lleno de bellísimas iglesias coloniales..si ya antes en la Revolución mexicana se quemaron cientos y cientos(probablemente incluso miles)de iglesias coloniales con sus irremplazables retablos platerescos,barrocos y neoclásicos,encima en los años 20 y 30 vino otra ola anticatólica que arrasó con otras tantas miles de iglesias por todo el país,encima era una minoría fanatizada(los llamados camisas rojas)los que entraban a las iglesias...sacaban todas las imágenes de santos y vírgenes y los amontonaban todos en mitad de las plazas donde allí mismo les prendían fuego...sólo Dios sabe la cantidad de obras de arte de la mejor calidad que se debió de perder para siempre y que jamás de los jamases los mexicanos podremos disfrutar(al menos los que tenemos esa sensibilidad estética,artística,cultural e histórica por nuestro pasado y riqueza patrimonial).Por desgracia lo que ahora nos queda es una triste insignificancia comparado con lo que debió de haber ya que sólo en la Ciudad de México en el Siglo XVIII había más de 25 conventos(sólo de monjas) y otros tantos de frailes,a eso hay que sumarle todas las decenas y decenas de parroquias,hospitales,capillas(todos esos edificios contaban con su respectivo templo y sus altares laterales) y por supuesto la enorme y grandiosa catedral...México(la Nueva España) en su mejor momento fue una prolongación exacta de España pero al otro lado del Atlántico y no cabe la menor duda de que debió estar a la altura de regiones españolas como la bellísima e incomparable Andalucía,en ciudades como Sevilla aún a día de hoy quedan más de cien iglesias centenarias en pié perfectamente conservadas...con sus más de mil retablos censados y decenas de miles de tallas policromadas y estofadas de los mejores artistas del barroco sevillano...digo todo ésto sobre Sevilla y Andalucía porque por suerte(y ahora por desgracia) nosotros en México fuimos una copia exacta de Andalucía tanto en cantidad como en calidad de nuestras iglesias,conventos,catedrales,etc...la pena es que no hemos sabido conservarlo,es cierto que comparado con el resto de países hispanoamericanos somos junto a Perú el que más arte sacro conservamos,sólo espero que lo que nos queda no siga disminuyendo por la desidia de los políticos,por los terremotos o por los atentados contra el arte sacro católico (como ya está pasando en países como Chile, Francia,Canadá,etc...)
Bom muito bom
Valeu
God bless the men who had the patience to find all these beautiful techniques
Kish Jugo, yes, God bless them.
I think u should say RIP
Kish Jugo - Men??? Are you sure?
This particular peace was created by a woman. Click the exhibit link to learn more about Luisa Roldán.
prophet muhammad was a child rapist And your brain isn't real either
There is a final step left in the spanish polychrome sculpture: The burnish of the oil paint with a lamb's bladder in order to smooth the surface left by the brush when you paint with oil. In spanish it's called: "Bruñido con vejiga de cordero".
Anyway, this video is awesome and very didactic.
How on earth did they come up with these techniques?!
Brilliant.
+Animadvertens Science
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@Animadvertens Probably through trial and error over years/generations. How ever they did it. It's awesome
Trial and error throughout many years
This polychromed sculpture techniques has been improved since Arcaic Mediterranean times. In fact this "imaginería" (the spanish name for this kind of sculptures) is direct inheritance of the "xoanon" (Ancient Greece monumental sculptures of deities made of wood and ivory, realistically painted, gilded and dressed in real clothes).
Este es un vídeo magnífico que me ha permitido apreciar con más profundidad el arte de la imaginería y su enorme calidad.
The clothes look like normal clothes, but it's was made of woods. That suprised me!
What the hell do you mean what kind of clothes are Made gold
Amazing sculpture
Truly fabulous. Thank you for all the effort of rendering it and then having someone carve it and then gesso- ing and painting it. Wonderful
Amazing, the technique, the patience and time involved, the training, the tools. And this video was so well done, down to the amazing 3D rendering of the sculpture.
A spellbindingly beautiful documentary! The computer animation is sublime. This is all so very fabulous.
Very interesting technique.What worked hundreds of years ago still works today.Masterful work. Bravo!
First class documentary in every aspect.
A truly magnificent sculpture! I am so impressed with how labor intensive it was to make this beautiful piece. Worth all the hard work.
Thank you very much, It has really inspired me to refine my studies on pigments and applications there of. As an artist I am obsessed with color and how to preserve it while applying it to works, and have had little fortune in academic structure. That said, I really look forward to liberating myself of the burden of paying for paint which I feel in many ways cheapens the true value of the true craft of artistry.
:D
FELICIDADES ! To the Great Artist Sculptor .
Incredibly beautiful craftsmanship!
That makes sense why Spanish Polychrome Sculpture can be fall under the "Uncanny Valley" level... they're really too realistic and creepy at some point, but beautiful at the same time.
hmmm, what do you guys think?
I don't think they are creepy. Contrary to wax sculpture you never confuse them with real characters, no matter how realistic they try to be. We need to remember that original Greek sculptures were also polychrome.
Too realistic and creepy???...speak for yourself please,this is art at the first level.
So creative and wonderful, what an art, a great craft!
Very informative, I had no idea this technique even exist ed.
Esto es verdaderamente hermoso gracias por compartir
That hand in hand pun tho.
Marvelous demonstration.
The amazing final result is worth the long painstaking process. Very interesting work of art!
Impressive at all stages.
Great video on how these sculptures were created!
Amazing. The patience and skill ...
Beautiful ❤️ so much work and technique and skill in paint,
Hispanic religious statues are a beloved and esteemed art form here in the Philippines. This carved type is called "de tallado" or "in the round", versus clothed mannequin-style saints. The heads and hands are sometimes made in one piece, of wood and for richer patrons, ivory. Encarna ("fleshing") and estofado (for the clothes) add to the realism and help devotees concentrate on the spiritual message of the image. Usually a Taller here is like the one that produced this image - family-run or a group of associates. They make religious images from mass-produced ones to bespoke works with gold-plated accessories and silk vestments that cost up to hundreds or thousands of dollars.
beautiful work! beautifully thorough video!
Absolutely amazing work.
@jdmosaics it means that it is colored and not simply in a basic singular shade like most statues
Incredible skills all round
Extraordinary! This kind of art craft is not teach at the Art Schools ....
finally!.....i've been looking for this....now, i can understand how the Estofado technique is made... There are a lot of Estofado Santo sculptures here in the Philippines... and nobody knows the technique...
What a shame many many churches from the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines disappeared after the many earthquakes occurred in the archipielago throughout the centuries...but the worst of all was the bombing and complete destruction of the intramuros section(or colonial Manila) by the americans in WW2.
These videos are priceless
amazing work. thank you for sharing
This is so satisfying to watch
Such a beautifully done work, and video. Very inspiring. Thank you.
Crazy, That takes some skills!
Increíble! Esa mano salió de un trozo de madera 😳
@jdmosaics
Hi!
Polychrome is a very antique technique of painting usually used on wood. Its paints are made of mineral pigments added a glue vehicle. The wood to be carved is so soft: in Brazil we employ cedar or mahogany. Why I know that? Because this is my job...see Olga Tukoff on web. Thanks for the beautiful and interesting video!
Your work is very good. You should post more to your instagram.
beautiful video
Wow, just wow, thanks for sharing this.
Marceloooooooo, que bom ver voce ai nesse vídeo, que sucessooooo!!! Bjão Vera
Thanks for sharing this beautiful technique!
Magnificent artistry!
Слов нет ,сильная работа !
WOW!! This is what I would call ART on how to make ART.
Incredible 3D modelling, and verry well put together, informative, easy to understand, and verry nice to look at =)
Thanx 4 uploading =) Subbed & thumbed up ;)
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Total admiration
I really want to know what to study to do all this amazing work. I want to became a sculptor ♥
wow, what kind of wood is that (used for hands for instance) so beautiful
Peter Gašperan looks like lime to me
wow. simply incredible! I wish I had known about these when I was in Spain
What a great video! Thank you
Thanks for sharing
Thank you for making these they are Great!
such a complete video in only 12 min, bravo !
Amazing, the technique. Thank you
4:44 my favorite pun. 😂
such amazing work
small thing but..but..big difference ...
Truly exquisite!
Waw very very good job brother unbelievable Jesus bless you brother amen
Stunning video!
Very enlightening thank you
hello new friend here sharing my full support, watching from Hawaii
thank you for sharing, stay safe and i will wait for your visit to my humble home. God bless
Remember the scratch rainbow thing. Where you scrape of the black and there’s a rainbow pattern hnderneath?
This is a beautiful video.
Documentário Excelente!!
I would like to know if this painting and gilding was done before or after the sculpture was already nailed together in its different parts.
After.
Muy bueno, extraordinario
Nice work Sir.....
I didn’t come close to this info in art class in college. I am agog.
impresionante
Wow 🤩
The antique ones are far more beautiful and magnificent quality.
Thank you for this video! I enjoyed it very much!
Very nice video, Thanks for share!!
very nice thank you
Incredible, but god that scraping noise when making the paint for the skin made my skin crawl.
Is that Museo Nacional de Arte de España, in Valladolid?
A very interesting video. It's a great pity the audio has gone out of sinc, as it ends abruptly, while the video runs in "real time." I hope there's a way to fix that.
Carducho likes this video.
How can 35 people NOT like this ,,,, go away and Twitter something ,,,,,
that was very interesting thank you
So, if you blow into the mouth it will whistle out the nose?
Idk
Wonderful video, however, why is the video going at a faster rate than the audio? I did not encounter this when I first watched it ... ?
Are they recreating a damaged piece? A lost piece? What are we supposed to gain by this demonstration of the least expensive and most efficient way to imitate ancient sculpture?
Wow
I wonder why they never said what kind of wood is used?
Because...wood.
www.amazon.com/Identifying-Wood-Accurate-Results-Simple/dp/0942391047
The original statue was made of pine & cedar.
gesus44 False. Different species have different grains, textures, strengths and withstand carving differently.
The original carved hand is smaller than life and more finely detailed hand. The copy is bigger, bigger is easier. Modern carve tools aren't good enough.
It was for a film demonstration so it needed to be larger as to not make it too difficult to make out the details.
Excellent ~~~
How does one carve a lion out of a block of marble? Remove anything that does not look like a lion.
thats just fucking awesome
I think its as good as Greek statues, but with the painting looks almost alive.
Amazing
What type of wood is used for these sculptures? I use basswood myself-plenty of that in the northern US-but I'm curious what they used here. Was it local woods or imported?
At least in Spain they mainly used Cedar.
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hmmm i wonder if 1.30 explains "weeping statues"
4:44 good pun