Mirrors

The mirrors arrived to Peru with the Spanish conquest, along with the gold leaf sheets, (pandeoro) the latter's origins goes far as back as ancient Egypt inasmuch as at the Tutankhamen's tomb, they found remains of this beautiful coating of sheets of gold. At the height of its fame in Italy and Spain, pandeoro then came to Peru.

In the vicereal era the pandeoro served to adorn churches, frames and other artisans objects.

There are four styles in the manufacture of mirrors, the Cajamarca style, caracterized for the glass painted, the Cusco style, where the pandeoro is applied to the carving, the Mixed style known as Cuscaja style, which consists in the use of pandeoro in the carving of the frames, as well as the painting of the glass. The fourth style is the polychromated style with the use of various multicolors shades, which at the present has great acceptance in the international market.