COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Ortega, José Benito (Colonial Spanish American santero, 1858-1941)
Creator role:
creator
Creator note:
American santera
Date display:
1880-1907
Title:
Crucifijo
Title:
Crucifix
Title:
Cristo Crucificado
Title:
Christ on the Cross
Description:
Christ nailed to the cross, clad in an uncharacteristic gold and red embellished loincloth.
Note Fr. Steele:
"The loincloth has an uncharacteristic Indianlike motif--looks stylistically like a Plains Indian parfleche--cf Wroth Images of Penance, Images of Mercy, p. 78, pl 17, 'School of José Benito Ortega I'--I would call them 'followers.'"|"This crucifix never had a pouf." [In representations of the crucifixion, a great decorative pouf often stands out from Christ's loincloth to the viewer's left]. The wound on Christ's left cheek is el beso de Judas--Judas's kiss betraying Christ in the Garden of Olives; the five lines of blood running down from it signify the five major wounds of the passion (nails in hands and feet, spear in side) and the five Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary."|The little angel (angelito) to the left of the Christ figure is also by Ortega: see RU0023
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
paint
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--Crucifixion
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Conservation note:
repaired at neck and thighs, enhanced bloodlines, by Marie Romero Cash; waxed by Marie Cash when restored.
Exhibition note:
Denver, CO: Denver Public Library, Sept-Oct 1986.
Provenance note:
collected in Mora area
Acquisition note:
1985. RU0068 (retablo of San Juan Nepomuceno) went in trade as part of the price to Larry Frank, Arroyo Hondo Arriba.
Accession number:
RU0097
Measurements display:
59.5 x 43.8 x 5.8 cm on cross 83 x 56 x 1.5 cm
Santo Subject:
Cristo Crucificado, Crucifijo (Crucifix)
Santo Subject Type:
Divine Subjects
Feast Day:
Good Friday
Note:
The death of Christ.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
