Detail View: Santo Collection:

Creator display: 
Otero, Nicolás (American santero, born 1981)
Creator role: 
creator
Date display: 
2005
Title: 
San Sebastian (Saint Sebastian)
Title: 
Saint Sebastian
Note Fr. Steele: 
"by Mary Jo Martin Madrid of Caán de Vallecitos."
Inscription: 
on back: San Sebastian / [artist signature] / El ? NM / 2005 ©
Location name: 
New Mexico
Materials display: 
natural pigments on hand-adzed pine panel
Material name: 
pigment
Material name: 
pine (wood)
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: 
Sebastian, Saint
Work type: 
retablos (panel paintings)
Exhibition note: 
Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-August 2009.
Acquisition note: 
2003
Accession number: 
RU0741
Measurements display: 
30.5 x 17.8 cm
Santo Subject: 
San Sebastian (Saint Sebastian)
Santo Subject Type: 
Male Saints
Feast Day: 
January 20
Note: 
Saint Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, though this did not kill him.
Rights text: 
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED