Detail View: Santo Collection:

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