Making a Spanish Polychrome Sculpture

Seventeenth-century Spanish polychrome sculpture was intended to appear as lifelike as possible. Compared to bronze or marble statues, sculpted and painted wooden figures--often with glass eyes and wigs--achieve a remarkable realistic effect. Artists specialized in particular Spanish polychromy techniques, such as estofado: painting and incising to create rich silk fabrics with raised patterns in gold and silver used for the garments, and encarnaciones: blending and applying of oil paint for lips, hair, and modulations of the skin. Learn more about these techniques in this video from the Getty Museum.
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[@kishjugo4685]

God bless the men who had the patience to find all these beautiful techniques

[@sundayaito2230]

Kish Jugo, yes, God bless them.

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I think u should say RIP

[@Simba______]

Kish Jugo - Men??? Are you sure?

[@Celanna192]

This particular peace was created by a woman. Click the exhibit link to learn more about Luisa Roldán.

[@cinnamon2369]

prophet muhammad was a child rapist And your brain isn't real either

[@alrakolevon]

I always wondered how these sculptures were made. Now I know. It is a honour we have sculptures like that in Mexico :)

[@sacroarte6462]

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...)

[@darciliosanteiro]

Bom muito bom

[@darciliosanteiro]

Valeu

[@jorgel.llimargas5974]

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.

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

Amazing sculpture

[@Animadvertens]

How on earth did they come up with these techniques?! Brilliant.

[@socalocman03]

+Animadvertens Science

[@wufongtanwufong5579]

@leslie Morrison *Art @Animadvertens Probably through trial and error over years/generations. How ever they did it. It's awesome

[@Wiener-Fag]

Trial and error throughout many years

[@duVallonFecit]

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).

[@martacalvovillar7923]

Este es un vídeo magnífico que me ha permitido apreciar con más profundidad el arte de la imaginería y su enorme calidad.

[@davidmann8254]

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

[@graziellamarchicelli6981]

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.

[@rossroderickwhitney]

A spellbindingly beautiful documentary! The computer animation is sublime. This is all so very fabulous.

[@SebbyNilsen]

The clothes look like normal clothes, but it's was made of woods. That suprised me!

[@deer563]

What the hell do you mean what kind of clothes are Made gold

[@arkaisk2]

First class documentary in every aspect.

[@dkolv1337]

That hand in hand pun tho.

[@armalvior]

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?

[@karlpj1]

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.

[@sacroarte6462]

Too realistic and creepy???...speak for yourself please,this is art at the first level.

[@nazaxprime]

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

[@lunhil12]

Incredibly beautiful craftsmanship!

[@reuvengayle2546]

Very interesting technique.What worked hundreds of years ago still works today.Masterful work. Bravo!

[@josedejuan1]

Amazing. The patience and skill ...

[@singlecatt]

A truly magnificent sculpture! I am so impressed with how labor intensive it was to make this beautiful piece. Worth all the hard work.

[@artsculpture1024]

So creative and wonderful, what an art, a great craft!

[@1seuleamour]

Esto es verdaderamente hermoso gracias por compartir

[@alepadavano227]

Very informative, I had no idea this technique even exist ed.

[@joecontreras5068]

Total admiration

[@bentleygt3716]

amazing work. thank you for sharing

[@harlemsar]

Wow, just wow, thanks for sharing this.

[@mariateresaaguirrre6538]

FELICIDADES ! To the Great Artist Sculptor .

[@fernandovelazquez-alvarez4222]

The amazing final result is worth the long painstaking process. Very interesting work of art!

[@richartedigital]

Thanks for sharing this beautiful technique!

[@edstud1]

Great video on how these sculptures were created!

[@777fiddlekrazy]

beautiful work! beautifully thorough video!

[@judyjohnson3486]

Absolutely amazing work.

[@lizzymoore54]

Magnificent artistry!

[@AI-hx3fx]

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.

[@onefeather2]

Beautiful ❤️ so much work and technique and skill in paint,

[@Gladtobemom]

Marvelous demonstration.

[@ghostdein1]

wow. simply incredible! I wish I had known about these when I was in Spain

[@user-yl6bw5cq9x]

Impressive at all stages.

[@StaceyMayer]

Such a beautifully done work, and video. Very inspiring. Thank you.

[@jsdrosario]

Documentário Excelente!!

[@beau-deanmclean5547]

Thank you for making these they are Great!

[@angieCity90]

This is so satisfying to watch

[@LucasPreti]

These videos are priceless

[@steventheoschuster1060]

Crazy, That takes some skills!

[@singleincincinnati]

Truly exquisite!

[@AbhinavDhar93]

This is a beautiful video.

[@charis128]

What a great video! Thank you

[@no_handle_required]

such amazing work

[@perditachavez]

such a complete video in only 12 min, bravo !

[@AndreaRoll]

beautiful video

[@Massev6871]

Incredible skills all round

[@veralupe]

Marceloooooooo, que bom ver voce ai nesse vídeo, que sucessooooo!!! Bjão Vera

[@PremKP]

Amazing, the technique. Thank you

[@isabelderojas1762]

impresionante

[@inthepupa]

Thank you for this video! I enjoyed it very much!

[@osprey02]

Excellent ~~~

[@nelsonferreira-aulasdearte]

Stunning video!

[@haroldarmstrong6288]

Very enlightening thank you

[@CellarPhantom]

Thanks for sharing

[@josediazdiaz8001]

Muy bueno, extraordinario

[@liz2jas]

that was very interesting thank you

[@anaMarPortillaC]

Increíble! Esa mano salió de un trozo de madera 😳

[@fr.michaelknipe4839]

Wow 🤩

[@authorvaleri]

Слов нет ,сильная работа !

[@s_lb8566]

Remember the scratch rainbow thing. Where you scrape of the black and there’s a rainbow pattern hnderneath?

[@Mucurex]

Amazing

[@jaja1818]

@jdmosaics it means that it is colored and not simply in a basic singular shade like most statues

[@danielleissaaboud4688]

very nice thank you

[@JulijeJelaska]

Extraordinary! This kind of art craft is not teach at the Art Schools ....

[@SandraXLopez]

Very nice video, Thanks for share!!

[@sujeetsoni3593]

Nice work Sir.....

[@khunthate]

wow, what kind of wood is that (used for hands for instance) so beautiful

[@billrugg-easey4764]

Peter Gašperan looks like lime to me

[@TooLF8th]

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 ;)

[@rumpelstiltskin5857]

amazing

[@araby369]

هايل تسلم ايدك يا فنانه

[@saidalmeida4501]

trabalho com restauração e umadasvai pouco com esculturas.aprendendo adorei o vídeo

[@evarrssc]

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...

[@sacroarte6462]

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.

[@marialiyubman]

4:44 my favorite pun. 😂

[@SaborCereza]

I really want to know what to study to do all this amazing work. I want to became a sculptor ♥

[@nelsonx5326]

Cool.

[@OlgaTukoff]

@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!

[@_GOD_HAND_]

Your work is very good. You should post more to your instagram.

[@ludoviko888]

muito bom

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small thing but..but..big difference ...

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Wow.

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Wow

[@saidalmeida4501]

perfeito lindo de mais

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beauty

[@alfonsovidal7064]

Is that Museo Nacional de Arte de España, in Valladolid?

[@leaode_cafe]

incrivél

[@BIZEB]

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.

[@sacroarte6462]

After.

[@gettymuseum]

@celery812many Thanks so much :)

[@RajKumar-rj9mc]

Waw very very good job brother unbelievable Jesus bless you brother amen

[@darrianweathington1923]

Wow, how much does it cost to get a sculpture of myself done like this.

[@lirtev]

thats just fucking awesome

[@HighwayJoe]

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.

[@emex-interiordesignate8232]

Good

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[@reynoldvalle]

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[@diadediadedia]

4:44 good pun

[@jaydepalma5115]

The antique ones are far more beautiful and magnificent quality.

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What will there be to promote

[@Samurai8989]

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 ... ?