The Potosí School refers to 17th-century Baroque artworks from Potosí, the location of the Spanish colonial mint: "according to some accounts, the city was an art factory producing at least 200,000 paintings a year".[1] Its most significant artist was Melchor Pérez de Holguín, from Cochabamba.[2] Artworks from Potosí are similar to works from the Cusco School but are characterized by their "more marked primitivism, the rigidity of the figures, and the abundance of 'narrative pictures'".[3]
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- ^ Alberto Corsin Jimenez (2013). An Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil for a Common World: An Essay on the Economy of Knowledge. Berghahn Books. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-85745-912-1.
- ^ Klein, Herbert S. (2003). A Concise History of Bolivia. Cambridge University Press. p. 84. ISBN 9780521002943.
- ^ Castedo, Leopoldo (1969). A History of Latin American Art and Architecture: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. p. 179.
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