# Ex-Voto (Retablo) × Posada's Calaveras — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=ex-voto+posada-calavera
# Ex-Voto (Retablo) carries the structure. Posada's Calaveras appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Ex-Voto (Retablo) (Style, 18th century–) and its accent from Posada's Calaveras (Style, 1880s–1913). Structural cues: Small tin panels; Scene, image and testimony in three layers; Naive perspective; Records of accident and miracle. Accent cues, used sparingly: Personified skeletons; Rough zinc-etched lines; Sharing the sheet with broadside type; Satire that laughs at death. Composition: Divide into three, the holy image above, the incident between, the words below. Type and lettering: Handwritten testimony packed along the bottom, name and date last. Let one material quality come from the second style: Rough zinc-etched line printed black on coarse paper, trimmed close. Mood: Intimacy, Trust, Nostalgia, Rebellion, Play. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Roughly 1862 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Ex-Voto (Retablo): Copying the naive picture and dropping the testimony leaves no one's incident on the panel, and the votive act itself goes missing.
# - Posada's Calaveras: Using the skeleton as a merely spooky motif blunts the satire that laughed at class, and the result becomes indistinguishable from seasonal decoration.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/ex-voto/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/posada-calavera/design.md