COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
unknown artist
Date display:
1940 circa
Title:
San Francisco de Asis
Title:
Saint Francis of Assisi
Description:
Bearded and tonsured figure standing on a rock, wearing a gold-trimmed robe.
Note Fr. Steele:
"Mexican provincial."|"[San Francisco de Paula] born 1416, died 157; founder of the Minims, a spinoff from Franciscanism; well received in Italy, France, and Mexico."
Location name:
Guadalajara
Location name:
Mexico
Materials display:
paint on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
paint
Material name:
wood (plant material)
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)
Provenance note:
purchased in Guadalajara, 1963.
Acquisition note:
2008, gift of Mrs. Robert (Patrica Romsa) Morris [RU0811-RU0826].
Accession number:
RU0817
Measurements display:
86.4 x 27.9 x 25.4 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