COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragón, José (Colonial Spanish American santero, active 1820-1837)
Creator role:
NKS, 110
Date display:
ca. 1820-1837
Title:
Santa Rosalía de Palermo
Title:
Saint Rosalia of Palermo
Description:
A woman in a black robe wears a crown of roses and holds a cross aloft in her right hand.
Note Fr. Steele:
compare plate 1, Alfred I. Barton Collection, E. Boyd's catalogue; same retablo shown p. 370, fig. 197, Boyd Popular Arts of Spanish NM
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on wood panel
Material name:
paint
Material name:
panel (wood by form)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Rosalia, Saint, d. 1160
Subject type:
Personal bibliography
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
Soluvar finish September 1986.
Exhibition note:
Pueblo, CO: Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Jan-May 2009.
Acquisition note:
1967
Accession number:
RU0001
Measurements display:
28 x 21 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Rosalía de Palermo (Saint Rosalia of Palermo)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Lived:
Died: about 1160
Feast Day:
September 4
Patronage:
Patronage: against plague, prayed to at velorios for the dead; patroness of engaged couples; probably patroness of penance for the women auxiliaries of the Brotherhood.
Note:
One stanza of an alabanza praises her: "Contigo el demonio / se muestra impaciente / de ver a tu cuerpo / haces penitente -- With you the devil / shows himself exasperated / seeing that you make / your body a penitent." According to a Sicilian legend, she was a girl of good family who became a hermitess; many years after her death, she saved Palermo from a plague and so became its patroness. Wearing a black, brown, or grey dress, a crown of roses, long hair, holding a cross, usually a skull, sometimes a book or a scourge
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED