COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
García, Fray Andrés (Colonial Spanish American santero, active ca 1747-1779)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1765 circa
Title:
San Antonio de Padua
Title:
Saint Anthony of Padua
Description:
Standing, tonsured male figure wearing dark robe and holding the Niño in the crook of his left arm.
Note Fr. Steele:
"It seems surely to be the work of Fray AG, alias Provincial Academic II style or The Master of San Jose --"|"Close analogue to this one in the Luis Gonzaga House in Los Griegos."|"The reliquary at the bottom [of the nicho that holds the bulto] contains a second-class relic of the saint--a tiny piece of the robe in which he was buried."|The bulto is displayed in a tin and glass nicho, RU94.
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
paint
Material name:
straw
Material name:
wood (plant material)
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:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Conservation note:
sealed with Soluvar Sept 1986
Exhibition note:
Chicago, IL: DePaul University, Jan-March 2008; Pueblo, CO: Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Jan-May 2009.
Acquisition note:
1983, gift from David Lopez of Marble NW.
Accession number:
RU0643
Measurements display:
19 x 6 x 4.3 cm
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