Nuevo Santander
Gallery
Fine Art - Antiques - Old
West Collectibles
717 North Main Street
¤ McAllen
TX 78501
(956) 618-4959 ¤ fax (956) 618-1746
nsantander@aol.com
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Cristo $500 12" Tall
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San Pedro $450 This is a
representation of Saint Peter the Martyr (also known as Saint Peter of
Verona). Well educated and embracing orthodoxy, San Pedro was a noted and
inspiring preacher of the early 1200s - symbolized by the bible in his
left hand. An inquisitor, he was murdered and martyred on the road
by a blow to the head.
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Francisco de Paula $1200 This Saint Francis of Paola figure is a wooden handcarved santo from the Mexican Colonial Period measuring 18” tall and 6” wide. It dates from the 1800s and is in untouched condition. The body is solid wood and the paint on the face is of native pigments over gesso. The paint has darkened, and there is some loss of gesso and paint. The figure is armless.
SANTOS The santo originated from the need to avoid the three year delay it took to get church furnishings from Spain to the remote land of Mexico. Priests hired local artisans to construct decorative embellishments - these "saint makers" were both trained and untrained artists originally from Spain and also from the New World. Imported goods eventually took their place next to these locally crafted religious images. Early santos were carved from any available wood, gessoed, and adorned with paint made from local and imported plants and minerals. As the number of colonists and missions increased, however, so did the demand for santos. Later carvers used the early santos as prototypes as well as the images from books and prints in the church. Parishioners soon had home altars and demanded more carvings. Patron saints were overwhelmingly the subject matter for these santo carvers. More
information about santos is available in Santos by
Marie Romero Cash.
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