COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
unknown artist
Date display:
1985 circa
Title:
Santo Niño de Praga
Title:
Holy Child of Prague
Materials display:
wood (plant material)
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Acquisition note:
Gift to Regis University from Janet Lee's mother-in-law, Mrs. Purita David, 1986.
Accession number:
RU0109
Measurements display:
34 x 24 x 11 cm
Santo Subject:
El Niño de Praga (The Infant Jesus of Prague)
Santo Subject Type:
Divine Subjects
Note:
A devotion asssociated with a 17th-century statue in the Carmelite church of Our Lady of Victory in Prague. A celebration of the child in a full robe, usually red, almost always wearing a crown, and holding a globe with a cross on top and often a scepter.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED