El Sueño de la Mujer Huamanguina / The Dream of the Woman from Huamanga

NameRetablo

Maker Edilberto Jiménez Quispe (Peruvian)

Date2017

Place madeLima, Lima, Peru, South America

MediumWood, plaster, enamel paint, cactus juice

Dimensions14 3/8 × 8 × 3 7/16 in. (36.5 × 20.3 × 8.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.2017.35.1

Object numberFA.2017.35.1

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionA wooden retablo with a opening and closing door. Inside is a scene with multiple human figures. On the left is a mountain with a cave. Inside the cave is a woman with two children. Underneath the mountain are two scenes, in one a man in a yellow shirt is being beaten, and the other has the man in yellow behind bars. On the righthand side is an angel dragging a bleeding man up towards a large figure with a halo and a red cape.