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Creator display:
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Blatnik, Michael
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Creator note:
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A longtime resident of Denver, Colorado Michael R. Blatnik also lived for a time in Taos, New Mexico. He has spent much of his 40 year career in restoration and framing of fine art and antique objects. The abstract concepts of faith have always intrigued Blatnik and he still marvels at the physical manifestation of spiritual thought. Living in New Mexico gave him the opportunity to study the art forms of the Penitente Brotherhood. He found in the presentation of the retables and bultos a hauntingly compelling simplicity. The pursuit and study of folk art and faith have brought Blatnik to this space in time and the works he produces. "Graven images are only such when one merely lacks the knowledge to perceive a deeper intent." - biography courtesy of Michael R. Blatnik. Blatnik is also a custom frame maker. He draws inspiration from Spanish Colonial style works and several of the frames in the Jan and Frederick R. Mayer, Spanish Colonial Art Collection in the Denver Art Museum were created by Blatnik.
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Creator role:
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creator
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Date display:
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2010
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Title:
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Santa Librada
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Location name:
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Denver
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Location name:
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Colorado
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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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Santa Librada
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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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Accession number:
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RU1004
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Santo Subject:
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Santa Librada (Saint Liberata, Kümmernis, Uncumber, or Wilgefortis)
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Santo Subject Type:
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Female Saints
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Feast Day:
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July 20
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Patronage:
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Patronage: A penitential saint for women.
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Note:
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Reputedly the daughter of a Portuguese king, one of nine sisters born of a single birth, she wished to devote herself to Christ; her father, who at first had tried to kill all nine and subsequently wanted to marry them off to his advantage, was somewhat thwarted when Librada grew a beard, so he had her crucified. The whole tale grew up, it seems, from a misinterpretation of an early-medieval clothed crucified Christ; see Hippolyte Delahaye, The Legends of the Saints (1961; original 1907); Roland Dickey, New Mexico Village Arts (1949), p. 157; José E. Espinosa, Saints in the Valleys (1967; original 1960), pp. 93-94. A crucified woman in long robes, with a hood or long hair; in New Mexico she never sports a beard, unfortunately.
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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