ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL~Cuzco Peru Vintage Style Oil Painting Start Price USD 49.00 Current Price USD 49.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 23, 2008 End Time Thursday, October 23, 2008 Location North Miami Beach See more about 'ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL~Cuzco Peru Vintage Style Oil Painting' Description ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL MEDICINAL~Fine Colonial PaintingFREE SHIPPING TO THE CONTINENTAL US!!! Click an Image to Enlarge PRODUCT INFORMATION Description You are bidding on a magnificent painting we have just received. An artist whose paintings are simply breathtaking has just joined our team of great masters of the Cusco School of Painting. The composition and rich colors of this absolutely remarkable painting have to be seen in person to be truly appreciated. This unique oil will make a valuable and rare asset to any art/religious collection. This elegant oil painting on canvas depicts the Archangel Raphael Medicinal.Raphael's Hebrew name means "medicine of God" or "God has healed". He is one of the three most important of the archangels, the benign friend of all humanity, protector especially of the young, the wayfarer and the pilgrim. The fish in one of his attributes. According to the legend, the young Tobias set forth on a journey for his father, who felt that death was near. Asking the way, he was joined by the Archangel Raphael who, unrecognized, rescued him from being devoured by a great fish. The gall of the creature which Raphael captured miraculously healed Tobias, father of blindness. Thus the Archangel became also the patron of doctors, healers and medicine men. If this was well understood in Alto Peru, the Indians could associate the Biblical figure with the practice of their own medicine men, who often used animal parts in their treatment.Look at the exquisite facial features and the color composition, it is just simply amazing. This remarkable painting has some subtle high-relief details. Bronze Leaf was used to accentuate finishing touches on this magnificent portrait.The history of the Peruvian painting has its origins at the colonial era. The Spanish painters who arrived at the Viceroyalty of Peru taught their techniques to the local artists, and they began to shape in its linen cloths its own representations, proposing a new iconographic interpretation of the Peruvian reality. The catholic divinities were adapted to indigenous sensitivity and gave like result an own and singular way that had its maxim expression in the "School of Cusco Painting" ( La Escuela Cusqueña), during centuries XVII and XVIII.This painting has been done in the style of the works of La Escuela Cusqueña, the history of which is traced to the 17th century. Originally influenced by Spanish and Italian artists, this school was comissioned to paint sacred art in churches and monasteries throughout the Peruvian city of Cusco after the area was devastated by an earthquake in 1650. The collected efforts of numerous artists gradually evolved into a unique yet harmonious and consistent style, devoid of individualism.Don't miss this opportunity to acquire a great piece of art at an unbelievable price !!Painting arrives rolled in a tube. Size 16"H x 12"W Approx. Weight 0.13 lb. 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