Detail View: Santo Collection:

Creator display: 
Ortega, José Benito (Colonial Spanish American santero, 1858-1941)
Creator role: 
creator
Date display: 
1890 circa
Title: 
Jesis Nazareno
Title: 
Jesus the Nazarene
Description: 
Standing Christ figure with crown of thorns. A bleeding "kiss of Judas" is on the figure's left cheek, and significant painted blood runs from the shoulders, from below the tunic, the knees, and especially the back. The figure has jointed fabric elbows and wears a decorative painted tunic in green, yellow, red and black.
Inscription: 
Typewritten notes attached to bottom: "Santos. Given to Walter and Alberta Drake June 1971 by Horace Anderson. They were given to him by David L. Neumann, Bishop's Lodge Road, Santa Fe. It came from Penitente Country between Santa Fe and Taos, N.M. Neumann traded for him. It was easier than cash."
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: 
Jesus Christ--Passion
Work type: 
bultos
Work type: 
sculpture (visual works)
Provenance note: 
originally from the Penitentes somewhere between Santa Fe and Taos; given in trade to David L. Neumann, Santa Fe; given by Neumann to Horace Anderson, who gave it to Walter and Alberta Drake in June 1971.
Acquisition note: 
2013, purchase from an heir of the Drake estate.
Accession number: 
RU0887
Measurements display: 
77 x 27.5 x 16 cm
Santo Subject: 
Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno (or, de Nazareno) (Our Father Jesus the Nazarene or Nazarite; or of Nazareth; the Ecce Homo)
Santo Subject Type: 
Divine Subjects
Feast Day: 
Good Friday
Rights text: 
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED