COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Molleno, Antonio (Colonial Spanish American santero, active ca. 1815-1845)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1815-1830 circa
Title:
Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
Title:
Our Lady of Sorrows
Description:
Crowned female figure in red garments standing with her hands folded, a sword piercing her heart.|"Three tassels on skirt seem to be original. The crown (resplandor) and sword are my modern replacements; the holes for them to fit into were already there. She probably had a wig and a veil, but she looked very strange with no crown and such short painted hair."
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on canvas stretched over lath (wood (plant material) frame
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Material name:
canvas
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Conservation note:
Soluvar, Sept. 1993
Exhibition note:
Denver, CO: Denver Public Library, Sept. - Oct. 1986|Denver, CO: Museo de las Americas, 2007|Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, 2016
Provenance note:
According to L.A. Rice, from whom I got it, it came from the Belen (NM) area.
Acquisition note:
December 31, 1976 from L.A. Rice
Accession number:
RU0052
Measurements display:
68 x 26 x 20 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (Our Lady of Sorrows)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
Friday before Palm Sunday and September 16
Patronage:
Patronage: Strength in suffering; compassion for others in sorrow; help with children, help in childbirth; for sinners. There is a definite penitential interest, as Chapter III (Santos and Saints) stated, since it is usually the Dolores bulto that engages in the Encuentro enactment as the Jesús Nazareno bulto moves in procession toward Calvary.
Note:
This is Mary enduring the sorrows predicted in Luke 2:35, especially that of the crucifixion of Jesus. The advocation arose about 1390, perhaps when the mourning figure of Mary was separated from a "Calvario" (crucifix with Mary and John) and made a distinct object of veneration; see Wroth, Images of Penance, Images of Mercy, p. 75. Mary standing with her hands folded, a sword or seven swords piercing her heart, wearing a red gown and a cowl; very infrequently she is crowned.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED