COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragón, José (Colonial Spanish American santero, active 1820-1837)
Creator role:
creator
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1820-1907
Title:
Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Title:
Our Lady of the Rosary
Note Fr. Steele:
"The head shows an addition to the top where a crown must originally have been. The right hand is poised to hold a rosary, the left to hold the Nino to her heart. The "flat-figure" shape of the body/skirt suggest Ortega rather strongly, but Aragon made some female bultos with nearly the identical configuration. The pegged shoes are certainly Ortega, and he probably thoroughly repainted the skirt and rebuilt the arms/elbows; the hands, though, are almost certainly Jose Aragon's work, not the usual Jose Benito Ortega "paws"."
Materials display:
wood (plant material)
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Accession number:
RU0199
Measurements display:
53.4 x 15.4 x 15.8 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Our Lady of the Rosary)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Feast Day:
October 7
Patronage:
Patronage: Acceptance of death in the family (saying the rosary is a central part of velorios [wakes] for the dead; see Lorin Brown, Hispano Folklife of New Mexico(1978), 134-35, where the crucifix of the rosary is the key to the gates of heaven); for peace, for help in danger and protection from accidents.
Note:
Because of the association of the rosary with the sea victory over the Muslim fleet at Lepanto on 7 October 1571, there is probably by analogy a New Mexican application to conflicts with non-Christian Indian foes. The Spanish-made La Conquistadora of the Santa Fe Cathedral, a sixteenth or early-seventeenth-century Asunción, was made first into a Purísima Concepción and then into a Rosario. It was very much connected with the military reconquest of the colony under De Vargas in 1692-93. Her official name was changed to Our Lady of Peace in 1992. Cortés gave the original Mexican Conquistadora now in Puebla to a Tlascaltecan cacique ally; Holweck, Calendarium Liturgicum Festorum Dei et Dei Matris Mariae (1925), 306; Castro, Artes de Mexico113 (1968), 40-42. The Virgin holds the Niño and a rosary; she is crowned though the Child is usually not; she stands on a crescent moon. Sometimes she is shown giving the rosary to Santo Domingo Guzmán, whose Order of Preachers especially spread the practice of reciting the rosary.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED