COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragon, Luis (American santero, 1899-1977)
Creator note:
American santero
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1975
Title:
Huida a Egipto
Title:
Flight into Egypt
Description:
Mountainous scene depicting Joseph holding a staff and leading the donkey on which Mary is riding while holding the baby Jesus. Both figures clad in long robes.
Note Fr. Steele:
used as Regis College Christmas card ca. 1976
Inscription:
on front: El Niño Jesus / La Huida a Hipto|signed on bottom
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
carved wood (plant material), string, stones
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--Flight into Egypt
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Acquisition note:
"gotten from L.A. personally in May 1975."
Accession number:
RU0042
Measurements display:
30 x 12 x 20 cm
Santo Subject:
La Huida a Egipto (The Flight into Egypt)
Santo Subject Type:
Divine Subjects
Feast Day:
February 17
Patronage:
Patronage: for travelers
Note:
An episode in Matthew's infancy narrative where a dream instructs Joseph to take Mary and Jesus and escape into Egypt to keep Herod from killing the child. Joseph leads the donkey, Mary rides sideways on it and carries the child; an angel sometimes accompanies them. A Rafael Aragon retablo adds at the bottom the massacre of the Holy Innocents as well as a great deal of obscure allegorical commentary; see E. Boyd in Houghland, American Primitive Art, pp. 24-25, 36-37.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED