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Creator display:
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Aragón, José Rafael (Colonial Spanish American santero, ca. 1796-1862)
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Creator note:
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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.
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Creator role:
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creator
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Creator note:
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immigrated from Chihuahua, Mexico in 1860
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Creator role:
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creator
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Creator role:
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creator
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Date display:
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1840 - 1890 circa
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Title:
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San Antonio de Padua
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Title:
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Saint Anthony of Padua
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Description:
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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.
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Note Fr. Steele:
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"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."
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Location name:
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New Mexico
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Materials display:
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paint on carved wood (plant material)
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Material name:
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paint
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Material name:
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wood (plant material)
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Source name:
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Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
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Subject term:
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Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231
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Work type:
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bultos
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Work type:
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sculpture (visual works)
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Conservation note:
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Soluvar
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Acquisition note:
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1990
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Accession number:
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RU0140
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Measurements display:
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38 x 10.5 x 11.8 cm
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Santo Subject:
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San Antonio de Padua (Saint Anthony of Padua)
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Santo Subject Type:
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Male Saints
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Lived:
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1195-1232
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Feast Day:
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June 13
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Patronage:
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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.
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Note:
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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.
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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