COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Laguna Santero (Colonial Spanish American santero, active 1790-1809)
Creator note:
Spanish artist from New Spain (Mexico), active late 18th century)Anonymous retablo painter named for one of his surviving works, a monumental retablo in the church of San José de Gracia located at the Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico. He was probably from southern New Spain (current Mexico), migrating to New Mexico as a commissioned artist or a member of the Franciscan order. His works appear in several New Mexico missions starting in 1795 and disappear from records after the completion of the Laguna altar screen around 1809. There are similar works by other artists in this school.
Creator role:
artist
Date display:
1790 circa
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)
Conservation note:
"The face-replace succeeded tolerably; the brown > gray part is my new work. Much gesso loss at upper left; some brilliant colors under the dirt, but generally it didn't clean up as well as I'd hoped. I enhanced some of the black-brown lines to make the design minimally perceptible."
Exhibition note:
1995, from Eduardo Sánchez at Carlos Osona.
Accession number:
RU0848
Measurements display:
27.5 x 17.8 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