COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Luján, Ernie (American santero, born 1951)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1995
Title:
Nacimiento
Title:
Nativity Scene
Description:
Nativity scene featuring the infant Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, with a sheep in the foreground and two angels flanking the scene on either side. A finial at the top of the wood panel features a dove at its center.
Note Fr. Steele:
"Holy Family -- Jesus as infant in crib; sheep, dove/HSp, angels."
Inscription:
on back: El Nacimiento 1995 / Santero: Ernie R. Luján
Location name:
Santa Fe
Location name:
New Mexico
Location name:
Santa Fe (county)
Materials display:
pigment on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
pigment
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Jesus Christ--Nativity
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note:
Jun-95
Accession number:
RU0250
Measurements display:
41.5 x 28.5 cm
Santo Subject:
Nacimiento de Jesucristo (Birth of Jesus Christ)
Santo Subject Type:
Divine Subjects
Feast Day:
December 25
Note:
The birth of Jesus at Bethlehem of Judea. Mary and Joseph stand or kneel at either side of a manger in which the infant lies. The "reliquary" in the Córdova chapel is probably a Nacimiento; the moon presently attached to it belongs to a Guadalupe.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED