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Mexican Religious Artwork
and Collectors Items
from Fausto's Art Gallery
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San Miguel Arcangel - Saint Michael Nicho
San Miguel Arcangel - Saint Michael the Archangel - is a very important saint in Mexico. He is associated, for instance, with the cult of the Day of the Dead, because it is believed that, at the moment of death, the angels and the devils fight over the spirit of the departed, and San Miguel is called on in order to take the side of the angels and assure the spirit will be carried off to Heaven This figure is over twelve inches tall. At his feet is another carved and painted figure representing Lucifer as half man and half dragon. Notice the exquisite and painstaking detail.
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Mexican Retablo Painting
San Isidro
Retablo art was in danger of dying out after the Mexican Revolution when it was, if not revived, at least given importance by Frida Kahlo, who is reported to have actually made a practice of stealing retablos from churches, where they were often destined to tossed out or sold for scrap by the local priests. Retablos were normally painted by untrained itinerant folk artists, who copied their original Works from the paintings in The cathedrals.
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Sacred Heart and Milagros Cross
The cross has a large Sacred Heart at the center, painted gold and red, and it has a whole lot of milagros nailed to the arms. There is not another quite like it. The image of the Sacred Heart is very important in Mexico. It was orignally seen by Santa Gertrudis in the Middle Ages, and since then its adoration has become an important part of Roman Catholicism.
Milagros are small religious charms that people usually nail onto sacred objects, pin on the clothing of saint statues, or hang with little red ribbons or threads from altars and shrines. The word "milagro" means "miracle".
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Mexican Saint Jude Nicho
Saint Jude, known in Mexico as "San Judas Tadeo" or simply as "San Judas" is set in a nice nicho, and it is constructed in the traditional "concha" style. It looks much like a traditional antique 19th Century nicho. This piece is hand carved and hand painted.
Saint Jude is one of most popular saints ever - he patron saint of difficult and hopeless causes. He is also refered to as "El del dinero" - "He of the Money" - refering to the practice that some people have of praying to him for money.
This is a hand painted, original piece of folk art.
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Virgin of Guadalupe Nicho
The Virgin of Guadalupe is the most famous saint in Mexico - the patron saint of Mexico, in fact. Known as the “Virgen Morena” - the brown skin virgin- Guadalupe was supposedly first encountered on the Hill of Tepeyac in what is now Mexico City only a few short years after the Spanish Conquest, by an Aztec Indian, Juan Diego, who was told to go and tell the bishop to build a temple on the spot where he first saw her. It happens that this spot is the same location where the temple of Tonantzin (“Our Lady” in the Aztec dialect, Nahuatl) was located. Tonantzin, on the other hand, was the recreation of an earlier Mother Goddess of the Indians who had been in the Valley of Mexico long before the arrival of the Aztecs.
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