Cradling Baby Jesus, Mary gestures for silence as his cousin John (the Baptist) approaches in this endearing painting by Fernando Sayan Polo. The Peruvian artisan replicates the spiritual artistry that enriches the Cuzco School of religious portraiture. Its aim was to reproduce the art within European churches during the Spanish Colonial era in Peru. Sayan Polo paints with oils, achieving admirable realism detailed with bronze leaf. Titled Virgen del silencio in Spanish.
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