Santo
name:
The child and mother appear to be carved from one piece.
The skin seems to have been repainted. The Virgin's robe
has a long crack from waist to hem.
Local Name: La Virgen del Rosario.
Basis for Identification: Mother and
child, rosaries hanging from the mother's
right arm and the child's neck.
Other characteristics: Red and gold
garments, gilt full crowns on both.
Site: Church of San Juan Bautista
Coixtlahuaca.
Location: In a
glass case in the center of the retablo
in the second bay in the north wall of the nave,
just above the Christ
Child (see note).
Media and construction: Polychrome.
Eyes:
glass, with lashes.
Hair: The Virgin has a wig over carved hair.
Size: About 4 feet (120 cm.)
Comparable santos in Oaxaca: Achiutla, Cuilapan,
Teitipac1,
Teitipac2, Teotitlán, Teposcolula,
Xoxocotlán.
External Links:
Wikimedia Commons: Statues
of
Our Lady of the Rosary in Mexico
Wikipedia: Our
Lady of the Rosary
Christian Iconography: Our
Lady
of the Rosary
Next: Below
the present statue is one of the Christ
Child.
Previous santo
Introduction to San Juan Bautista
Coixtlahuaca
Santos Home Page
Note: On
this
site,
references to the cardinal directions always assume
that the main altar is at the east end of the church,
the narthex or entry area at the west end, and the two
walls
of the nave on the
north and south. (The
nave is the long central section.)
Actual orientations may differ.
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