COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Taos Serrate tin (metal)smith (American tin (metal)smith, active ca. 1870-1905)
Creator note:
active
Date display:
1900 circa
Title:
San Antonio de Padua
Title:
Saint Anthony of Padua
Description:
Print: San Antonio, wearing a brown Franciscan robe tied with cord at the waist, stands in clouds and holds a lily in his right hand, and the Christ child perched on a book in his left. The child holds a globe with a cross on top under his left arm; putti look inward from the clouds at the margins.
Note Fr. Steele:
"Toas Serrate tinsmith, Coulter-Dixon [New Mexican tinwork, 184-194, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 199], p. 75, right margin."
Inscription:
on print: Sn. Antonio de Padua / St. Antoine de Padoue / St. Anthony of Padua
Location name:
Taos
Location name:
New Mexico
Location name:
Taos (county)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231
Work type:
prints (visual works)
Exhibition note:
Denver, CO: St. Thomas Seminary, Dec 1992-Jan 1993; Morrison, CO: The Fort, Tesoro Foundation Spanish Market and Rendezvous, Sept 2003 & 2005; Chicago, IL: De Paul University, Jan-March 2008.
Acquisition note:
1975
Accession number:
RU0048
Measurements display:
44 x 39 cm (frame); 39 x 24 cm (opening)
Santo Subject:
San Antonio de Padua (Saint Anthony of Padua)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
1195-1232
Feast Day:
June 13
Patronage:
Patronage: Finder of lost articles, and probably of lost animals; patron of animals, especially burros and cattle; patron of the home; invoked by married women who want to have children, by girls to find a worthy husband; for orphans; patron of miracles.
Note:
Born in Lisbon, became a Franciscan, was trained by San Francisco himself, became a great preacher and miracle-worker. New Mexicans sang several hymns in his honor. Sometimes dressed in a Franciscan robe, holding a palm, a lily, or a flowering branch, occasionally a heart; he holds the Niño; wears the tonsure.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED