COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragón, José Rafael (Colonial Spanish American santero, ca. 1796-1862)
Creator note:
Probably worked with his brother, José, creating santeros in colonial Santa Fe. Some scholars believe this brother, the legendary "José Aragon," is instead a man with a similar name from the Las Cruces area.
Creator role:
creator
Creator note:
immigrated from Chihuahua, Mexico in 1860
Creator role:
creator
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1840 - 1890 circa
Title:
San Antonio de Padua
Title:
Saint Anthony of Padua
Description:
Standing, tonsured male figure wearing a dark robe and white sash around waist, supporting a large baby Jesus in his left hand and holding a copper wire staff in his right.
Note Fr. Steele:
"Rafael Aragon or Santo Niño Santero [Jose Manuel Benavides] body, Jose Benito Ortega head, Jose de Gracia Gonzales infant."|"It's a teaching device: the remaining/separated parts of broken santos are still intrinsically holy and worth reconstructing into a new unity. Ortega probably put the torso and the Niño together and added the missing head in his own style."
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:
Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Conservation note:
Soluvar
Acquisition note:
1990
Accession number:
RU0140
Measurements display:
38 x 10.5 x 11.8 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