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Peruvian Retablos

Retablo artists use simple wood tools and a plaster made with potato starch, to bring colorful, hand-shaped figurines to life. Elaborately painted wooden boxes with hinged doors open to reveal lively scenes arranged on one or more shelves. These dioramas illustrate everyday places and events, or characters and stories of religious significance.

  • Our Lady of Guadalupe

    Peruvian Our lady of Guadalupe Retablo

    Retablos are a sophisticated Andean folk art in the form of portable boxes which depict religious, historical, or everyday events that are important to the Indigenous people of the highlands of Peru and Bolivia. The Spanish word retablo comes from the...

    $129.00
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  • The Cantina The Cantina

    The Cantina

    Retablos are a sophisticated Andean folk art in the form of portable boxes which depict religious, historical, or everyday events that are important to the Indigenous people of the highlands of Peru and Bolivia. The Spanish word retablo comes from the...

    $229.00
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