COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Molleno, Antonio (Colonial Spanish American santero, active ca. 1815-1845)
Creator role:
creator
Creator note:
also known as Chili painter
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
ca. 1815-1845
Title:
Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos
Title:
Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos
Description:
Standing female figure with hands folded in front of her chest, clad in a blue cape open to reveal a decorative white and red garment. Candles flank the figure on either side.
Note Fr. Steele:
"an alabanza (hymn of praise) to Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos, "San Juanita Sois," appears in a Pecos Valley handwritten notebook of humns (RU 124); #69 in my DBase of alabados."|"See Miracles along the Border: this was far and away the most popular title of Nuestra Señora in the subject-area of that book."
Materials display:
paint on wood panel
Material name:
paint
Material name:
panel (wood by form)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
San Juan de los Lagos, Mexico
Subject term:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
"poor repainting of the face, unfortunately. I cleaned it; sealed with Soluvar Sept 1986."
Acquisition note:
1983, from Larry Frank.
Accession number:
RU0082
Measurements display:
14 x 21 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos (Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
February 2
Note:
The city of San Juan de los Lagos is about two hundred miles northwest of Mexico City. This title originated in the veneration of a statue of the Immaculate Conception. The settlers of Talpa south of Taos fostered the devotion during the first half of the nineteenth century. As has been noted in connection with Nuestra Señora de las Candelarias, there is great confusion between the two titles; symptomatic is Frances Toor's statement that the Señora of San Juan was a Virgin of the Purification, de la Candelaria (A Treasury of Mexican Folkways [1947], p. 184); and the fiesta of the Virgin of San Juan falls indeed on Candlemas, the feast of the Purification. See especially Jay F. Turner, "The Cultural Semiotics of Religious Icons: La Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos," Semiotica47 (1983), 317-61, especially pp. 321-27.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED