COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Espinosa, Gilberto (American author and santero, died 1983)
Creator note:
American author and santero
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1974 circa
Title:
Cruz
Title:
Cross
Title:
Santa Cruz
Title:
Holy Cross
Description:
Black cross with semi-circular notches in the four termini, decorated with simple inlaid straw design
Note Fr. Steele:
"GE died c Feb 1983; first Hispanic author about santos, three issues in NM Mag spring 1935 and in NM Quarterly in about 1936. Gilberto was part of the renowned E family, and his and Jose E. Espinosa's interest in the popular religious 'use' of the santos (rather than art-history/art-criticism) has been the abiding source of my own main approach. See RU 43, another gift."
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
straw inlay on painted wood (plant material)
Material name:
straw
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:
Holy Cross
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Exhibition note:
Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-Aug 2009.
Acquisition note:
1974, gift of the artist.
Accession number:
RU0036
Measurements display:
46 x 15 cm
Santo Subject:
La Santa Cruz (The Holy Cross)
Santo Subject Type:
Divine Subjects
Feast Day:
Good Friday
Note:
The cross shown without the body of Christ. It is often decorated with designs made of straw. Presumably the cross would have the same patronage as the crucifix.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED