COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Váldez, Horacio (American santero, 1929-1992)
Date display:
1991
Title:
Santa Bárbara
Title:
Saint Barbara
Description:
Female figure with long, dark hair holds a palm in her left hand; she wears a long, brightly colored dress with three flounces (honoring the Trinity).
Inscription:
on bottom: Santa Barbará / Por Horacio / 98
Location name:
Dixon
Location name:
New Mexico
Location name:
Rio Arriba (county)
Materials display:
acrylic paint on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
acrylic 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:
Barbara, Saint
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Conservation note:
Soluvar, Sept. 1986; "perhaps should be cleaned--face and hands."
Exhibition note:
Denver, CO: Museo de las Americas, "Altar Girls" February-June 2007|Morrison, CO: The Fort, Tesoro Foundation September 2005, 2006, 2007|Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-August 2009
Provenance note:
"according to L.A. Rice, from whom I got it, it came from the Belen area."
Acquisition note:
1991, commissioned from the artist.
Accession number:
RU0147
Measurements display:
60.8 x 18.7 x 16.1 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Bárbara (Saint Barbara)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Feast Day:
December 4
Patronage:
Patronage: Protectress against lightning and tempests; a rhyming prayer ran, "Santa Bárbara doncella, Libera nos del rayo y la centella."
Note:
A legend originating in the tenth century or so avers that her father shut her up in a tower and killed her for her faith, whereupon lightning killed him. She owes a lot to Danaë. Wearing a crown, often with red plumes, holding a palm and a monstrance; a long dress with three flounces (honoring the Trinity); a tower in the background, often with three windows, and a thundercloud with lightning; sometimes a font or altar with a cross cut in the stone.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED