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Ex-voto to Santa Rita de Cascia
Ex-voto to Santa Rita de Cascia
Ex-voto to Santa Rita de Cascia
Museum of International Folk Art
DepartmentLatin America

Ex-voto to Santa Rita de Cascia

NameEx-voto
Artist Artist not recorded
Place madeMexico, North America
MediumTin, paint
DimensionsOverall: 8 9/16 x 10 7/16 in. (21.7 x 26.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, gift of Eric Zafran, FA.2010.97.13
Object numberFA.2010.97.13
Collections
DescriptionRoughly cut horizontal tin sheet, pierced at all corners and mostly painted in shades of red and pink. Image depicts a room with a woman in bed along one wall and another woman kneeling beside her. Over the bed is a crucifix hanging on the wall. In the upper left (proper right) corner of the painting is an apparition of a nun holding a cross in one hand and something red in the other. Below, the inscription reads: " El dia 17 de Abril de 1854 se enfermo gravemente mi hija mi Rosalia Marquez de una fuerte irritacion de la piel por estar enferma de la sangre. Invoque a Santa de Cascia mi hija y pronto se esta reestlablaciendo. Tomasa M."
Ex-voto wall hanging
Artist not recorded
ca. 2000
Embroidery by Policarpio Valencia.
Policarpio Valencia
1927
Ex-voto
Artist not recorded
Embroidery
Policarpio Valencia
ca. 1927
Ex-voto
Artist not recorded
Embroidery
Policarpio Valencia
1925
Embroidery
Policarpio Valencia
before 1931
Photography by Kellen Hope
Blanca Garcia
1897
Procession nicho of San Ysidro
Ramon José Lopez
1991
Santa Rita de Cascia/St. Rita of Cascia
Rafael Aragón
ca. 1830, staff