19th C. Spanish Colonial Santo - St. Anthony of Padua

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VARIETY AUCTION | Ancient & Ethnographic

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Jun 6, 2019

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• Lot Description
  New World, Spanish Colonial, Mexico, ca. 19th century CE. Hand-carved from wood, this is a santo depicting the Franciscan monk St. Anthony of Padua. He holds a carved figure of the Christ Child, here wearing red and gold robes and looking solemnly forward, seated on a book. In his other hand, he holds a simple gold-painted wooden cross. The saint's robes are brown, with gold-painted details and a gold-painted rope with three knots in the traditional Franciscan style representing poverty, chastity, and obedience; he also has a gold-painted tin halo. His face is kindly, with brown glass eyes and a slight tilt. Size: 6" L x 6.25" W x 15.75" H (15.2 cm x 15.9 cm x 40 cm)
  
  St. Anthony was a Portuguese Franciscan priest and friar who died in Padua, Italy. Despite being born into a wealthy family, he was known for his intense devotion to the poor and sick, and holds the distinction of being canonized most quickly of all the saints. He is also known as the patron saint of lost things - objects, people, and souls. In art, he is often depicted with a book and the infant Jesus, based on a commonly told story of him reading a book and seeing the Christ Child's image in it.
  
  Santos played an important role in bringing the Catholic Church to the New World with the Spanish colonists. These religious figures were hand-carved and often furnished with crowns, jewels, and other accessories, usually funded by religious devotees, and were used as icons to explain the major figures - Mary, Christ, and the saints - to new, indigenous converts. Likewise, they served as a connection to the Old World for Spanish colonists far from home. They became a folk art tradition in the Spanish New World, from modern day Guatemala to as far north as New Mexico and Colorado. Many of them were lovingly cared for over the years, with repairs and paint added as they aged, and played an active part for a long time in the religious life of their communities.
  
  Provenance: private Francis & Lilly Robicsek Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
  
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  #120420

  Condition

  Wear to paint and some areas of overpainting. Two of the fingers are lost as is the tip of the saint's nose and both of the Child's arms.
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