COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Córdova, James M. (American santero, born 1974)
Creator note:
American santero
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1993
Title:
San Pedro Apostol
Title:
Saint Peter the Apostle
Inscription:
on back: San Pedro Apostol / James M. Cordova / Santa Fe NM / 1993
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:
Peter, the Apostle, Saint
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
"Had a serious need of cleaning (which it got) and some inpainting to make the design visible (which it also got); still needs work on face, which was simply nonexistent."
Exhibition note:
Morrison, CO: The Fort, Tesoro Foundation Spanish Market, Sept 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007; Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-Aug 2009.
Acquisition note:
1998
Accession number:
RU0755
Measurements display:
20.3 x 10.2 cm
Santo Subject:
San Pedro Apostol (Saint Peter the Apostle)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Feast Day:
June 29
Patronage:
Patronage: of happy death and admission to heaven; for the freedom of prisoners (see Acts 12:6-11); patron of church unity; protector from fevers.
Note:
The leader of the apostles, the first pope, the custodian of the "keys of the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 16:19), hence in folklore the keeper of the gates of heaven. In Mexican and New Mexican religious folklore, he takes the trickster's role; see Hynes and Steele, "Saint Peter: Apostle Transfigured as Trickster," in Hynes and Doty, eds., Mythical Trickster Figures(1993), pp. 159-73. In long robes, bearded, with a key or keys, sometimes also holding a book; he often wears the triple papal tiara and sometimes carries a crozier.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED