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NICOLÁS ENRÍQUEZ

VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE, ABOUT 1740

About the Artwork

No image is as distinctively Mexican as the Virgin of Guadalupe, with her characteristic spiky aura and blue robe with gold stars. After her miraculous appearance to the Indian Juan Diego in 1531, the Virgin of Guadalupe became exceptionally popular in Mexico among both Spaniards and Indians. Juan Diego was canonized a saint by Pope John Paul II on July 31, 2002.

Here the Virgin is surrounded by angels and four miniature scenes of her original miracles. At the bottom, a landscape shows the new church dedicated to her in 1703 at the foot of the hill of Tepeyac north of Mexico City, the site of her original appearance and miracles. Painted on copper in Mexico City around 1740, it is signed by the well-known artist Nicolas Enríquez.

-- Donna Pierce, 2015

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