COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragon, Luis (American santero, 1899-1977)
Creator note:
American santero
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1973 circa
Title:
San Isidro Labrador
Title:
San Ysidro Labrador
Title:
Saint Isidore the Farmer
Description:
A bearded man wearing farmers garb, eyes closed and hands raised in prayer, his hat resting on a log by his feet; to his right, an angel holds the handles of a plow pulled by two oxen.
Note Fr. Steele:
"Charles Briggs has a lot of information in his various publications on devotion to San Isidro."
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Isidore, the Farmer, Saint, 1080?-1130?
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Exhibition note:
Denver, CO: Denver Public Library, Sept-Oct 1988; Trinidad, CO: A.R. Mitchell Museum, summer 2007; Pueblo, CO: Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Jan-May 2009.
Acquisition note:
1974
Accession number:
RU0033
Measurements display:
27 x 43 x 17 cm
Santo Subject:
San Isidro Labrador (Saint Isidore the Plowman)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
Died: 1170
Feast Day:
May 15
Patronage:
Patronage: of farmers, of crops, petitioned for rain; patron of all workers.
Note:
A farmer, married to Santa María de la Cabeza, whose praying God enjoyed so much he used to send an angel to do the saint's plowing and free him for prayer. Often depicted in farmer's garb, usually with a broad brimmed hat, often with a walking staff, ox goad, or hocking iron; an angel guides a plow pulled by two oxen. Charles Briggs has a lot of information in his various publications on devotion to San Isidro.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED