COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Carrillo-Garcia, Estrellita A. (American santera, born 1980)
Creator note:
daughter of Charlie and Debbie
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
2013
Title:
Reredos
Title:
Altar Screen
Description:
Six-panel altar screen representing six saints, topped by finials on the left and right and a central, scrolled lunette in which the Holy Trinity is depicted. Narrow pieces of wood frame the six panels on either side, and extend below them.
Inscription:
on back: Trinity / San Miguel San Francisco San Raphael / Estrellita Carrillo-Garcia 2013 / St Gertrude San Jose Santa Rita
Location name:
Santa Fe
Location name:
New Mexico
Location name:
Santa Fe (county)
Materials display:
paint on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
paint
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Altarpieces
Subject type:
Topic
Subject term:
Holy Trinity
Subject term:
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Subject term:
Raphael (Archangel)
Subject term:
Gertrude, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302
Subject term:
Joseph, Saint
Subject term:
Rita, of Cascia, Saint, 1381?-1457
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note:
2013, Santa Fe: Spanish Market
Accession number:
RU0884
Measurements display:
54 x 32 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Gertrudis (Saint Gertrude the Great)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Lived:
1256-1302
Feast Day:
November 16
Patronage:
Patronage: of the medieval devotion to the Sacred Heart; patroness of the young, especially students; perhaps for faith and for souls in purgatory.
Note:
A German Benedictine nun and mystic with a great devotion to the heart of Christ as a symbol of mystical union with him; she is patroness of the West Indies, then understood to include New Mexico.
Santo Subject:
San Francisco de Asís (Saint Francis of Assisi)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
1181- 1226
Feast Day:
October 4
Note:
The son of a merchant, founder of the Franciscans, dedicated to poverty and the passion of Christ, marked by the stigmata (the wounds of Christ in hands, feet, and side). His Order of Friars Minor had almost sole responsibility for New Mexico until the early nineteenth century.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED