COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
O'Rourke, Robert (American santero, born 1926)
Creator note:
American santero
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1997
Title:
El Flagelante Espéctral (The Ghostly Penitent)
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)
Acquisition note:
gift of the artist
Accession number:
RU0330
Measurements display:
19.4 x 28.4 x 8.6 cm
Santo Subject:
El Flagelante Espéctral (The Ghostly Penitent)
Santo Subject Type:
Other Subjects
Patronage:
Patronage: for prompt fulfillment of duties.
Note:
A reminder to each Brother of Our Father Jesus to do promptly anything of obligation, or he might have to return after death to perform his duties. A skeletal figure kneeling before a cross with a scourge in its hand; see Weigle, Western Folklore36 (1977), 135-47
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED