COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Sena, Marie (American santera, born 1983)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
2012
Title:
Santa Bárbara
Title:
Saint Barbara
Inscription:
on back: Santa Barbara / Marie Sena '12
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
natural pigments on wood panel
Material name:
pigment
Material name:
panel (wood by form)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Barbara, Saint
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note:
2012, Santa Fe: Spanish Market
Accession number:
RU0873
Measurements display:
48.3 x 29.2 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Bárbara (Saint Barbara)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Feast Day:
December 4
Patronage:
Patronage: Protectress against lightning and tempests; a rhyming prayer ran, "Santa Bárbara doncella, Libera nos del rayo y la centella."
Note:
A legend originating in the tenth century or so avers that her father shut her up in a tower and killed her for her faith, whereupon lightning killed him. She owes a lot to Danaë. Wearing a crown, often with red plumes, holding a palm and a monstrance; a long dress with three flounces (honoring the Trinity); a tower in the background, often with three windows, and a thundercloud with lightning; sometimes a font or altar with a cross cut in the stone.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED