COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Roxanne Shaw-Galindo
Date display:
2014
Title:
Santa Lucia
Title:
Saint Lucy
Description:
Standing, haloed female figure wearing purple robe and gold cape, holding a palm frond in her left hand and a pair of eyes on a pedestaled dish in her right.
Inscription:
on back: Santa Lucia / Invoked against eye disease, hemorrhage, and / throat disease. / Feast Day: December 13 / Roxanne Shaw-Galindo / 2014
Location name:
Colorado
Materials display:
paint on wood panel
Material name:
paint
Material name:
panel (wood by form)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Lucy, Saint, -304
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:
RU0905
Measurements display:
28.5 x 11.2 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Lived:
Died: 304
Feast Day:
December 13
Patronage:
Patronage: against disease of the eyes.
Note:
A Sicilian maiden, reputed to have been denounced as a Christian by her rejected suitor; her virginity was saved despite her being sent to a house of prostitution, and her life was saved despite her being thrown into the fire, but finally her throat was successfully cut. In some accounts, she was blinded (“lucia” means “light” in Italian). A young girl in long robes carrying a palm and a pair of eyes (duplicates of her own) on a dish.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED