Novo-Hispanic school; XVIII century. "Guadalupana". Oil on canvas.

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  Novo-Hispanic school; XVIII century. "Guadalupana". Oil on canvas. Presents period frame with damage and repainting. Size: 98 x 65 cm; 119 x 89 cm (frame). The iconography of Guadalupe acquired great richness and variety especially from the seventeenth century. The representation that concerns us follows faithfully that of the original canvas (attributed to the Indian Marcos Cípac, XVI century): the crescent moon at her feet supported by an angel, the rays bordering the figure, the mandorla, the crown, the dark complexion of the Virgin... Our Lady of Guadalupe is a Marian invocation of the Catholic Church, whose image has its main center of worship in the Basilica of Guadalupe, in the north of Mexico City. According to Mexican oral tradition, it is believed that the Virgin Mary appeared four times to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on the hill of Tepeyac. Juan Diego, in the last apparition of the Virgin, carried in his ayate some flowers that he cut on Tepeyac, according to the Virgin's order. He unfolded his ayate before Bishop Juan de Zumárraga, revealing the image of the Virgin Mary, dark and with mestizo features. The Mesoamerican peoples from remote times already venerated in the hill of Tepeyac a deity called Tonantzin, hence there is a certain syncretism with the assimilation of the message brought by the Virgin Mary. This event was known as the Miracle of the Roses, and was recorded in the "Nican Mopohua", a text presumably written by the Indian Antonio Valeriano. It is worth mentioning that during the Spanish colonial domination, a mainly religious painting was developed, aimed at Christianizing the indigenous peoples. The local painters were modeled on Spanish works, which they followed literally in terms of types and iconography. The most frequent models were the harquebusier angels and the triangular virgins, however, it was not until the first years of the 19th century, already in times of independence and political opening of some of the colonies, that several artists began to represent a new model of painting with its own identity.
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