COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Quill Pen Santero (Colonial Spanish American santero, active 1830-1840)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1830-1840
Title:
Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
Title:
Our Lady of Sorrows
Description:
Portrait of a female figure in a red gown and blue mantle with yellow trim. Her hands are folded in front of her and a sword pierces her chest. Figure painted in two layers with two faces and three and a half hands.
Note Fr. Steele:
"NS Dolores with 2 faces and 3-1/2 hands; lower layer by Pedro Fresquis, upper by Quill Pen Santero. Burned at upper right (after reptg); about 15% of original gesso missing, some sgraffito and crosshatching showing from original."
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:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Exhibition note:
Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-Aug 2009.
Acquisition note:
1999, gift of Dr. Patrick and Doreen Kelly
Accession number:
RU0577
Measurements display:
22.9 x 15.2 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (Our Lady of Sorrows)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
Friday before Palm Sunday and September 16
Patronage:
Patronage: Strength in suffering; compassion for others in sorrow; help with children, help in childbirth; for sinners. There is a definite penitential interest, as Chapter III (Santos and Saints) stated, since it is usually the Dolores bulto that engages in the Encuentro enactment as the Jesús Nazareno bulto moves in procession toward Calvary.
Note:
This is Mary enduring the sorrows predicted in Luke 2:35, especially that of the crucifixion of Jesus. The advocation arose about 1390, perhaps when the mourning figure of Mary was separated from a "Calvario" (crucifix with Mary and John) and made a distinct object of veneration; see Wroth, Images of Penance, Images of Mercy, p. 75. Mary standing with her hands folded, a sword or seven swords piercing her heart, wearing a red gown and a cowl; very infrequently she is crowned.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED