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Creator display:
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Prudencio, Federico (American santero and furniture worker)
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Creator role:
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creator
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Date display:
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2013
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Title:
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Nuestra Señora del Rosario
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Title:
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Our Lady of the Rosary
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Description:
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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.
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Inscription:
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Carved in bottom: Federico Prudencio / 2013
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Location name:
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New Mexico
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Materials display:
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paint on carved wood (plant material)
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Material name:
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paint
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Material name:
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wood (plant material)
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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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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Work type:
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bultos
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Work type:
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sculpture (visual works)
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Acquisition note:
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2013, Santa Fe: Spanish Market
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Accession number:
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RU0886
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Measurements display:
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81.5 x 36.5 x 25.5 cm
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Santo Subject:
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Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Our Lady of the Rosary)
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Santo Subject Type:
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Female Saints
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Feast Day:
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October 7
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Patronage:
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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.
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Note:
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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.
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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