COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Florence, Al (American santero)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1999
Title:
San Luis Gonzaga
Title:
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
Title:
Saint Luigi Gonzaga
Description:
Retablo with black background and white decorative border. A haloed figure wearing a black robe and a gold cloak with sleeves holds a crucifix and palm.
Note Fr. Steele:
"for source, see New Kingdom of the Saints [Larry Frank], p. 217, pl 195, after Rafael Aragon."
Inscription:
on back: San Aloysius (Luis) / Gonzaga / Al Florence / 1999
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on wood panel
Material name:
paint
Material name:
panel (wood by form)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Gonzaga, Luigi, Saint, 1568-1591
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note:
1999, gift of Al Florence and Rey Montez to Regis University, Spanish Market.
Accession number:
RU0561
Measurements display:
33 x 27.9 cm
Santo Subject:
San Luis Gonzaga (Saint Aloysius Gonzaga)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
1568-1591
Feast Day:
June 21
Patronage:
Patronage: of youth and especially their purity; patron or protector of dancers (see Brown, Hispano Folklife [1978], 187; Weigle and White, Lore of New Mexico [1988], 193-94).
Note:
Of a noble Italian family, he joined the Jesuits; while a seminarian, he died of the plague contracted when nursing the sick. Clad in a white alb and a dark cloak with sleeves, holding a palm and a crucifix, tonsured but not bearded.
Santo Subject:
San Luis Gonzaga (Saint Aloysius Gonzaga)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
1568-1591
Feast Day:
June 21
Patronage:
Patronage: of youth and especially their purity; patron or protector of dancers (see Brown, Hispano Folklife [1978], 187; Weigle and White, Lore of New Mexico [1988], 193-94).
Note:
Of a noble Italian family, he joined the Jesuits; while a seminarian, he died of the plague contracted when nursing the sick. Clad in a white alb and a dark cloak with sleeves, holding a palm and a crucifix, tonsured but not bearded.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED