Altar of Our Lady of Mount
Carmel |
Unidentified Deacon: The left hand, now broken off, seems to have once held something up. The statue resembles the one that is to the right of the glass case. It seems to have been repainted. Basis for Identification: Tonsure, dalmatic. Site: Church of San Pedro y San
Pablo, Teposcolula. Location: Left of the central glass case in a retablo along the east wall of the south transept (see note). Media and construction: Wood, gesso, paint. Eyes: painted. Size: About 20 inches (50 cm.) Saint Stephen Basis for Identification: Tonsure, dalmatic, three rocks arranged on a book in the left hand. Site: Church of San Pedro y San
Pablo, Teposcolula. Location: Right of the central glass case in a retablo along the east wall of the south transept (see note). Media and construction: Wood, gesso, paint. Eyes: painted. Size: About 20 inches (50 cm.)External Links: Wikimedia Commons: Saint Stephen Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Stephen Wikipedia: Saint Stephen Christian Iconography: Saint Stephen, Protomartyr Our Lady of Mount Carmel: The Virgin's face has a lifelike sheen, but the finish is more dull on the right hand (the left is not visible) and on the face of the child.
Local Name: La Virgen del Carmen. Basis for Identification: Child, brown habit with bib, scapulars, full crowns on both. Site: Church of San Pedro y San
Pablo, Teposcolula. Location: In a glass case in the center of a retablo along the east wall of the south transept (see note). Media and construction: Wood, gesso, paint, fabric garments. Eyes: glass, with lashes. Hair: wig. Closed mouth. Size: About 5 feet (150 cm.) Comparable santos in Oaxaca: Coixtlahuaca
main altar, Cuilapan, Ejutla, Etla, Guelavia, Huitzo, Teitipac, Tlaxiaco, Xoxocotlán,
Zaachila,
Zimatlán. Wikimedia Commons: Statues of Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Mexico Wikipedia: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Virgen del Carmen (in Spanish). Christian Iconography: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Next: At the far end of the south transept, a retablo with a statue of a Dominican saint Previous santo Introduction to Teposcolula 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. Some churches are shaped like a cross; the "arms" of the cross constitute the transept. The photos shown here are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free to share or remix them on two conditions: first, that you attribute them to the photographers, Claire and Richard Stracke, without implying any approval of your work on their part; second, that if you alter, transform, or build upon these photos, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. |