COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Duran, Teresa (American santera, born 1955)
Creator note:
American santera
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
2014
Title:
Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos
Title:
Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos
Title:
Our Lady of the Lakes
Description:
Crowned, haloed female figure wearing a turquoise gown, standing on a pedestal and upturned crescent moon and flanked by a candle on either side. The retablo is topped by a turquoise lunette, and lunettes frame the four corners of the painting.
Inscription:
on back: Our Lady of the Lakes|Teresa May Duran
Location name:
Colorado
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:
retablos (panel paintings)
Exhibition note:
2014, Denver CO: Regis University, O'Sullivan Gallery santo show.
Acquisition note:
2014, Denver, CO: Regis University, O'Sullivan Gallery santo show.
Accession number:
RU0900
Measurements display:
71 x 38 x 3.5 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos (Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
February 2
Note:
The city of San Juan de los Lagos is about two hundred miles northwest of Mexico City. This title originated in the veneration of a statue of the Immaculate Conception. The settlers of Talpa south of Taos fostered the devotion during the first half of the nineteenth century. As has been noted in connection with Nuestra Señora de las Candelarias, there is great confusion between the two titles; symptomatic is Frances Toor's statement that the Señora of San Juan was a Virgin of the Purification, de la Candelaria (A Treasury of Mexican Folkways [1947], p. 184); and the fiesta of the Virgin of San Juan falls indeed on Candlemas, the feast of the Purification. See especially Jay F. Turner, "The Cultural Semiotics of Religious Icons: La Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos," Semiotica47 (1983), 317-61, especially pp. 321-27.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED