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