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Creator display:
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Sena, Marie (American santera, born 1983)
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Creator role:
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creator
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Date display:
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2012
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Title:
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Santa Bárbara
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Title:
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Saint Barbara
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Inscription:
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on back: Santa Barbara / Marie Sena '12
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Location name:
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New Mexico
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Materials display:
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natural pigments on wood panel
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Material name:
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pigment
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Material name:
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panel (wood by form)
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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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Subject term:
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Barbara, Saint
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Work type:
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retablos (panel paintings)
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Acquisition note:
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2012, Santa Fe: Spanish Market
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Accession number:
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RU0873
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Measurements display:
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48.3 x 29.2 cm
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Santo Subject:
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Santa Bárbara (Saint Barbara)
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Santo Subject Type:
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Female Saints
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Feast Day:
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December 4
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Patronage:
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Patronage: Protectress against lightning and tempests; a rhyming prayer ran, "Santa Bárbara doncella, Libera nos del rayo y la centella."
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Note:
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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.
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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