COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Zamora, Frank (American santero, born 1958)
Creator note:
life
Date display:
2010
Title:
Nuestra Señora de la Piedad
Title:
Our Lady of the Deposition
Title:
Pietá
Inscription:
on back: Nuestra Señora de la Piedad
Inscription:
Zamora 2010
Location name:
Denver
Location name:
Colorado
Materials display:
natural pigments on pine, piñon (pine) sap varnish
Material name:
pigment
Material name:
pine (wood)
Material name:
varnish
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Acquisition note:
2010
Accession number:
RU0855
Measurements display:
106.7 x 72.4 x 5.3 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora de la Piedad (The Pieta; Our Lady of the Deposition)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
Good Friday
Patronage:
Patronage: Presumably, the associations of the crucifixion itself: salvation, pardon of sins, bearing suffering, and so forth.
Note:
The bereaved mother holds the dead body of Christ in her lap. The cross and the implements of the passion are in the background.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED