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Creator display:
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Brito, Frank Sr. (American santero, 1922-2004)
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Creator note:
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SCAS Master's Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1996 (woodcarving)
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Creator role:
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creator
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Date display:
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1992 circa
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Title:
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Santa Librada
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Title:
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Saint Liberata
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Title:
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Saint Uncumber
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Title:
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Saint Wilgefortis
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Description:
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Crucified female figure with dark hair, wearing a black robe over a white dress with a green and red decorative motif.
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Note Fr. Steele:
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"[Brito] was awarded the Master's Award for Lifetime Achievement, Spanish Market 1996."|Articles: Tradicion Revista 2/4 p.92; 3/4 p. 1
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Inscription:
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Incised in back: Frank Brito|Label affixed to back: St Librada / Help cure the sick / Was crucified by / Unbelievers. / Hand carved -Pinewood / Frank Brito
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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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Wilgefortis (Legendary saint)
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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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Exhibition note:
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Denver, CO: Museo de las Americas, Feb-June 2007.
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Acquisition note:
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1992
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Accession number:
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RU0164
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Measurements display:
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49.8 x 29 x 7 cm
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Santo Subject:
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Santa Librada (Saint Liberata, Kümmernis, Uncumber, or Wilgefortis)
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Santo Subject Type:
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Female Saints
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Feast Day:
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July 20
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Patronage:
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Patronage: A penitential saint for women.
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Note:
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Reputedly the daughter of a Portuguese king, one of nine sisters born of a single birth, she wished to devote herself to Christ; her father, who at first had tried to kill all nine and subsequently wanted to marry them off to his advantage, was somewhat thwarted when Librada grew a beard, so he had her crucified. The whole tale grew up, it seems, from a misinterpretation of an early-medieval clothed crucified Christ; see Hippolyte Delahaye, The Legends of the Saints (1961; original 1907); Roland Dickey, New Mexico Village Arts (1949), p. 157; José E. Espinosa, Saints in the Valleys (1967; original 1960), pp. 93-94. A crucified woman in long robes, with a hood or long hair; in New Mexico she never sports a beard, unfortunately.
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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