COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
unknown artist
Date display:
1930-1940
Title:
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Title:
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Note Fr. Steele:
Oil painted with china eyes and real eyelashes (!).Note the overly-dramatic broken -down-Baroque posture. The bright red-and-green color scheme is very folk -- very rasquache (see RU 241).
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
oil paint on wood (plant material)
Material name:
oil paint
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Guadalupe, Our Lady of
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
cleaned with water after a good dry-brushing.
Acquisition note:
acquired in Mountainair, NM.
Accession number:
RU0008
Measurements display:
47 x 30.1 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
December 12
Patronage:
Patronage: For general favors in sickness; against all evil, particularly war; patroness of the Mexican and Indian peoples
Note:
Mary standing in a body halo, supported upon a dark upturned crescent and a winged angel. She often wears a crown.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
