COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Ortega, Benjamin Sr. (American santero, 1923-1998)
Creator note:
SCAS Master's Lifetime Achievement Award, 1995 (woodcarving)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
acquired 1999
Title:
San Francisco de Asis
Title:
Saint Francis of Assisi
Inscription:
on bottom: BEN ORTEGA
Location name:
Tesuque
Location name:
New Mexico
Location name:
Santa Fe (county)
Materials display:
carved and stained aspen
Material name:
aspen (wood)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Acquisition note:
1999, gift of Judge Thomas J. Mescall.
Accession number:
RU0708
Measurements display:
21.5 x 12 x 8 cm
Santo Subject:
San Francisco de Asís (Saint Francis of Assisi)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
1181- 1226
Feast Day:
October 4
Note:
The son of a merchant, founder of the Franciscans, dedicated to poverty and the passion of Christ, marked by the stigmata (the wounds of Christ in hands, feet, and side). His Order of Friars Minor had almost sole responsibility for New Mexico until the early nineteenth century.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED