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Ayacucho Retablo Box — Cover

About Ayacucho Retablo Box

The retablo ayacuchano is a portable wooden shrine box from Ayacucho, Peru — double doors swing open to reveal tiered miniature worlds built from a hand-mashed potato-and-gypsum paste, painted in a strict color code: blue for sky, green for fields, red for blood and herds, yellow for sand, all crowded together under gold leaf and pink accents. This design system translates that shadow-box density into a digital surface: a deep teal ground packed with saturated polychrome panels, ornate serif display type, and bordered tiers that never breathe empty space, echoing a devotional craft where every inch is deliberately filled.

Learn more about the Ayacucho Retablo Box style

Origin
Ayacucho, Peru, Latin America / Andes
Era
20th century (rooted in older Andean portable-shrine and saint-box traditions)
Key figures
Joaquín López Antay · Ayacucho retablo master artisans · Familia Jiménez retablo workshops
Movements
Peruvian retablo folk art · Andean polychrome devotional craft

Ayacucho Retablo Box design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

AlmendraHeadings
PiazzollaBody
Noto SerifMono
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