COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Lucero, David Nabor (American santero, born 1957)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
2012
Title:
Huida a Egipto
Title:
Flight into Egypt
Inscription:
on bottom: David Nabor Lucero / 2012 /
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
natural pigments on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
pigment
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Jesus Christ--Flight into Egypt
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Acquisition note:
2012, Santa Fe: Spanish Market
Accession number:
RU0874
Measurements display:
58.4 x 50.8 x 29.2 cm
Santo Subject:
La Huida a Egipto (The Flight into Egypt)
Santo Subject Type:
Divine Subjects
Feast Day:
February 17
Patronage:
Patronage: for travelers
Note:
An episode in Matthew's infancy narrative where a dream instructs Joseph to take Mary and Jesus and escape into Egypt to keep Herod from killing the child. Joseph leads the donkey, Mary rides sideways on it and carries the child; an angel sometimes accompanies them. A Rafael Aragon retablo adds at the bottom the massacre of the Holy Innocents as well as a great deal of obscure allegorical commentary; see E. Boyd in Houghland, American Primitive Art, pp. 24-25, 36-37.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED