COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Ortega, José Benito (Colonial Spanish American santero, 1858-1941)
Creator role:
creator
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
ca. 1871-1880
Title:
San Ramón Nonato
Title:
Saint Raymond Nonnatus
Description:
Tonsured male figure wearing a red chasuble over white robes; most likely holding a monstrance in his right hand.
Note Fr. Steele:
"Very unrectangular. Perhaps by José Benito Ortega (E. Boyd's attribution); the four-sided swag bordering looks A.J. [Santero]; the whole ensemble is probably Quill Pen Follower (Charles Carrillo, ref. Wroth, Images of Penance, Images of Mercy, p. 94-97."
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:
Raymond, Nonnatus, Saint, ca. 1204-1240
Subject term:
tonsure
Subject term:
men
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
"I used acetone/paint-remover to complete the cleaning that had been begun in Eleanor Bedell's Canyon Road shop; the whole panel had been covered with a NS Guadalupe, not bad and not new; when I got it it had been about one third cleaned. It appears to have been scraped in prep for the repainting; hence little of the original design is clear. --If I had it to do over, I'd only finish cleaning what was stripped and leave the rest of the Guadalupe where it was--as a teaching device. Most unfortunately, I didn't even take a photo of it--didn't then own a camera that would take one. Soluvar Sept 1986."
Exhibition note:
Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-Aug 2009.
Acquisition note:
1969
Accession number:
RU0005
Measurements display:
29 x 21 cm
Santo Subject:
San Ramón Nonato (Saint Raymond Nonnatus)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
1240
Feast Day:
August 31
Patronage:
Patronage: of pregnant women, women in childbed, and the unborn; patron of secrecy for the Penitentes; protector against being slandered or cursed; protector of captives and those oppressed by the infidel, with a possible application to Anglo land-grant manipulators (Robb, Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest, p. 709).
Note:
A Mercedarian (see #110), he traded himself into captivity to free some prisoners from the Moors; while a slave he refused to quit preaching as told, so his lips were padlocked; once released, he became a cardinal. His epithet refers to his being a caesarean birth from a dead mother. Wearing orange or red chasuble or cloak over white robes; holding a monstrance and a wand with three crowns on it; bearded; sometimes with dots above and below his lips.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED