COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Prudencio, Federico (American santero and furniture worker)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
2013
Title:
Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Title:
Our Lady of the Rosary
Description:
Crowned female figure in blue tunic and patterned dress holding a red-robed child (who holds a cross) on her left arm, and a rosary with both hands. An upturned crescent moon rests at the hem of her gown; she has no legs but is attached to a decorative floral-motif base that sits atop a square, footed base.
Inscription:
Carved in bottom: Federico Prudencio / 2013
Location name:
New Mexico
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:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Acquisition note:
2013, Santa Fe: Spanish Market
Accession number:
RU0886
Measurements display:
81.5 x 36.5 x 25.5 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Our Lady of the Rosary)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Feast Day:
October 7
Patronage:
Patronage: Acceptance of death in the family (saying the rosary is a central part of velorios [wakes] for the dead; see Lorin Brown, Hispano Folklife of New Mexico(1978), 134-35, where the crucifix of the rosary is the key to the gates of heaven); for peace, for help in danger and protection from accidents.
Note:
Because of the association of the rosary with the sea victory over the Muslim fleet at Lepanto on 7 October 1571, there is probably by analogy a New Mexican application to conflicts with non-Christian Indian foes. The Spanish-made La Conquistadora of the Santa Fe Cathedral, a sixteenth or early-seventeenth-century Asunción, was made first into a Purísima Concepción and then into a Rosario. It was very much connected with the military reconquest of the colony under De Vargas in 1692-93. Her official name was changed to Our Lady of Peace in 1992. Cortés gave the original Mexican Conquistadora now in Puebla to a Tlascaltecan cacique ally; Holweck, Calendarium Liturgicum Festorum Dei et Dei Matris Mariae (1925), 306; Castro, Artes de Mexico113 (1968), 40-42. The Virgin holds the Niño and a rosary; she is crowned though the Child is usually not; she stands on a crescent moon. Sometimes she is shown giving the rosary to Santo Domingo Guzmán, whose Order of Preachers especially spread the practice of reciting the rosary.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED