COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
unknown artist
Date display:
1890 circa
Title:
Nuestra Señora de la Purisima Concepcion
Title:
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
Description:
Standing female figure with long hair, wearing a white robe and a blue cloak, her arms--both of which are missing hands--extended in front of her. Figure stands upon a blue, spherical pedestal.
Note Fr. Steele:
"all wood, painted over very light gesso. Some evidence of gilding; black overpainting (or climatic discoloration?) & much paint-loss and gesso-loss. Hands missing; face carved separately, well joined."
Inscription:
label on base: "#80-543 Virgin"
Location name:
Phillipines
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:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Acquisition note:
1991, gift of Josef Venker S.J.
Accession number:
RU0150
Measurements display:
32.1 x 8.3 x 6 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción (Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
December 8
Patronage:
Patronage: For all favors, especially purity and repentance of sin; against all evil.
Note:
The words "Inmaculada" and "Limpia" are sometimes substituted for "Purísima." This is a devotion to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin; it is not identical with the virgin birth of Christ and indeed has nothing to do with it directly, and it is not a profession of the virgin birth of Mary herself, which is not held by any Christian sect I am aware of. The Franciscan theologian Duns Scotus developed reasons for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in the fourteenth century; Sister María de Jesús de Ágreda, the "Lady in Blue," was a Franciscan "Conceptionist" nun; the Franciscans who staffed New Mexico in the seventeenth century took the color in honor of her bilocations to preach to the Indians of the region. The doctrine was solemnly proclaimed by Pius IX in 1854. Mary stands on an angel-supported moon or on a serpent, often wears a crown, holds her hands folded, and holds in them sometimes a flower; she may be surrounded by emblems like monstrance, rose, lily, palm, ladder, star, and so forth. Shalkop, Wooden Saints(1967), p. 40, notes that a bulto usually identified as the Purísima Concepción but probably technically La Alma was known in Abiquiú as Our Lady of Innocence.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED