The Virgin of Guadalupe

Form

• Inspired by asian decorative arts, based off of Japanese lacquerware
• Gonzoles was the best to work in this style
• Highly elaborate
• Shell inlaid

Function

• Functioned for worship
• Shows social status and wealth
• Displays individual pitty

Context

• Venter is the Virgin of Guatalupe
• Looking down at the ground clasping her hands together creating humbleness
• Traditional clothes of Mary
• Has golden stars on her cloak
• Light surrounding her, framing her head referencing the crown she wears
• Roundels in the upper corners of scenes from the Apparitions
• Bottom right is Juan Diego unveiling the piece to the bishop
• Angels holding the stories

Context

• Spanish Philippines traded with Mexicans
• There was an isolation period
• Made their pieces very desirable
• Story of the Virgin of Guadalupe varies from Culture to Culture
• Juan Diego was on the way to mass, but then the virgin appeared to him and asked him to build a shrine to her, and eventually Juan convinced the Bishop

Tunic kept in the church

Learning Objective

17th c. Southern Baroque (New Spanish) enconchado painting

Themes

Cross-cultural

Religion

Visions

Human & Divine

Devotional object

Materials with significance