COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragón, José (Colonial Spanish American santero, active 1820-1837)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
ca. 1830
Title:
San Juan Evangelista
Title:
Father of the Church
Title:
Saint John the Evangelist
Title:
Male Saint
Description:
Bearded figure with halo wearing a white tunic and black cloak and biretta, holding a book. There is a sun in the upper left corner, and flowers in the bottom corners.
Note Fr. Steele:
"cd be San Juan Evangelista, more likely an Eastern church father (Atanasio, Basilio, Cirilo, etc.)"|"Here is José Aragon at his quiet best. Note the little bare feet sticking out below the robe. The star (or sun or whatever) in the upper corner is unexampled, as is (more strikingly) the headgear. The closest thing to the headgear may be that of RU17, El Rey Mago or San Clemente Papa Romano; so it is probably meant to suggest some Eastern-Mediterranean hat or biretta."
Location name:
New Mexico
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Fathers of the Church
Subject term:
John, the Apostle, Saint
Subject term:
men
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note:
1969, with RU0005, from Eleanor Bedell, Canyon Road, Santa Fe.
Accession number:
RU0004
Measurements display:
19 x 15 cm
Santo Subject:
San Juan Evangelista (Saint John the Evangelist,the Divine)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Feast Day:
December 27
Patronage:
Patronage: Compassion with Our Lady of Sorrows and through her with Jesus in his passion.
Note:
Apostle and evangelist, usually identified as the "beloved disciple," one of the "Sons of Thunder," who was traditionally believed to have lived into the second century and died on the Island of Patmos. Bearded, wearing a biretta and a dark cloak over a light tunic, holding a book and pointing to it; or, wringing his hands, bareheaded and usually beardless, especially as part of a Calvario (crucifixion group).
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED