COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
A. J. Santero (Colonial Spanish American santero, active ca. 1820-1840)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1820-1840 circa
Title:
Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
Title:
Our Lady of Sorrows
Description:
Portrait of a female figure clad in a red dress and blue mantle, her hands folded or holding an object to her chest.
Note Fr. Steele:
"E. Boyd, Popular Arts in Spanish New Mexico, p. 366, notes the two colors A.J. used to draft: 'His sketchy outlines are done in either dark blue or reddish brown instead of near black.' This is an example of the blue outlining; RU0020 is an example of the reddish brown. The A.J. Santero is named from initials appearing on one of his retablos."
Location name:
New Mexico
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:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
"I cleaned it and varnished it with Soluvar, then got Marie Romero Cash to fix it up a little -- repairing the worst of the black-line overpainting, enhancing the red (?) lines at the breast."
Exhibition note:
Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-Aug. 2009
Acquisition note:
1986, from Jeffrey Adams Antiques, Santa Fe.
Accession number:
RU0110
Measurements display:
26 x 18.5 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