COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
A. J. Santero (Colonial Spanish American santero, active ca. 1820-1840)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1820-1840 circa
Title:
Santa Gertrudis la Magna
Title:
Saint Gertrude the Great
Description:
A female figure wears a black nun's habit, holds a staff with a red pennant in her right hand, and a heart in her left.
Note Fr. Steele:
"The A.J. Santero is probably going to become more admired or fashionable in ensuing years." | "The A.J. Santero is named from initials appearing on one of his retablos. Boyd notes his 'thick, gritty gesso ground and acid coloring.' 'Santero,' p. 13, Popular Arts in Spanish New Mexico, p. 366; William Wroth, Christian Images in Hispanic New Mexico, p. 192; Larry Frank, New Kingdom of the Saints, p. 162-69." | "E. Boyd, Popular Arts in Spanish New Mexico, p. 366, notes the two colors A.J. used to draft: 'His sketchy outlines are done in either dark blue or reddish brown instead of near black.' RU 110 [Nuestra Señora de los Dolores] is an example of the blue outlining; this is an example of the reddish brown."
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:
Gertrude, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
Soluvar, Sept 1986
Acquisition note:
1972, "traded oil painting with Jim Moore."
Accession number:
RU0020
Measurements display:
30 x 18 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Gertrudis (Saint Gertrude the Great)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Lived:
1256-1302
Feast Day:
November 16
Patronage:
Patronage: of the medieval devotion to the Sacred Heart; patroness of the young, especially students; perhaps for faith and for souls in purgatory.
Note:
A German Benedictine nun and mystic with a great devotion to the heart of Christ as a symbol of mystical union with him; she is patroness of the West Indies, then understood to include New Mexico.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED