COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Córdova, Lawrence (American santero, born 1962)
Creator note:
birth date from artist
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
2013
Title:
San Francisco de Asis
Title:
Saint Francis of Assisi
Description:
Bearded, tonsured figure wearing a blue Franciscan robe with white, knotted cord around waist, holding a skull in his right hand and a cross in his left, hands and feet showing stigmata, standing on a square pedestal base.
Inscription:
on robe above left foot: LC|on bottom of base: San Francisco de Asis / [artist's signature] / 2013 / LC
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:
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Acquisition note:
2014, Santa Fe: Spanish Market.
Accession number:
RU0896
Measurements display:
48 x 15 x 15 cm
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