COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
FresquÃs, Pedro Antonio (Colonial Spanish American santero, 1749-1831)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1810 circa
Title:
Crucifijo
Title:
Crucifix
Title:
Cristo Crucificado
Title:
Christ on the Cross
Description:
A bearded Christ wearing a crown of thorns, with head tilted to the right, is nailed to a simple, dark wooden cross. The figure shows the wounds of crucifixion and wears a decorative breechcloth with a red and yellow horizontal pattern. The figure's fingers are not delineated.
Note Fr. Steele:
"Listed as #4 of Nolie Mumey Catalogue / May D&F 19 April 1968; 'Crucifix/Cross, 25 x 12-1/2 inches, original, shaped round / corpus, 14 inches, fine carving, early 19th century, overpainted.'"|"Very beautiful and moving face, especially in profile."
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
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:
Jesus Christ--Crucifixion
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Conservation note:
"I did extensive restoration around the neck, hair, crown of thorns, tin (metal)ting it; also armpits and shoulders, thin covering on corpus' left arm, replacing right hand (which had been replaced by an outsize but fairly old hand)." Soluvar Sept 1986
Exhibition note:
Golden, CO: Foothills Art Center (n.d.); Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-Aug 2009.
Acquisition note:
1971, from L.A. Rice (with RU0019)
Accession number:
RU0018
Measurements display:
cross: 63 x 32 x 9 cm; corpus: 40 x 28 cm
Santo Subject:
Cristo Crucificado, Crucifijo (Crucifix)
Santo Subject Type:
Divine Subjects
Feast Day:
Good Friday
Note:
The death of Christ.
Santo Subject:
Cristo Crucificado, Crucifijo (Crucifix)
Santo Subject Type:
Divine Subjects
Feast Day:
Good Friday
Note:
The death of Christ.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
