COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Fresquís, Pedro Antonio (Colonial Spanish American santero, 1749-1831)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1749-1831
Title:
Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos
Title:
Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos
Location name:
San Juan de los Lagos
Location name:
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.
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Measurements display:
21.6 x 16.5 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos (Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
February 2
Note:
The city of San Juan de los Lagos is about two hundred miles northwest of Mexico City. This title originated in the veneration of a statue of the Immaculate Conception. The settlers of Talpa south of Taos fostered the devotion during the first half of the nineteenth century. As has been noted in connection with Nuestra Señora de las Candelarias, there is great confusion between the two titles; symptomatic is Frances Toor's statement that the Señora of San Juan was a Virgin of the Purification, de la Candelaria (A Treasury of Mexican Folkways [1947], p. 184); and the fiesta of the Virgin of San Juan falls indeed on Candlemas, the feast of the Purification. See especially Jay F. Turner, "The Cultural Semiotics of Religious Icons: La Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos," Semiotica47 (1983), 317-61, especially pp. 321-27.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED