VTG MEXICAN RELIGIOUS OIL CANVAS PAINTING MONJA CORONADA /CROWNED NUN by Ventura

Description

FROM ANTIQUE SHOP in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico:
A GORGEOUS EXAMPLE OF MEXICAN RELIGIOUS ART:
GORGEOUS VINTAGE (1950's) OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING, featuring
MONJA CORONADA (CROWNED NUN)*
. SIGNED by the artist -
VENTURA
.
SOLID WOOD FRAME WITH GILDED DETAIL in good condition (a bit of wear on tips).
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
:
*
One of the most famous types of female portraits in the colonial Spanish Americas are the Monjas Coronadas, or Crowned Nuns, so named for the elaborate floral crowns atop their heads. In these portraits, nuns are accompanied by objects such as candles, religious badges (escudos), a ring, dolls, flowers, and crowns.
These portraits were made on the occasion of a nun’s profession (literally when she took the veil to officially enter a convent as a professed nun)
RECOMMENDED READ ON THE SUBJECT
:
Kirsten Hammer, “
Monjas coronadas: The Crowned Nuns of Viceregal Mexico
” in Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits, ed. Elizabeth P. Benson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004)
Monjas coronadas: vida conventual femenina en Hispanoamérica
(Mexico City: Concaculta, 2003)
DETAILS:
HIGHLY INTRICATE PAINTING
ABSOLUTELY MESMERIZING!
OIL ON CANVAS
15" X 12" (Framed)
11.5" x 8 3/4" (image only)
Signed by artist: Ventura
SOLID WOOD FRAME WITH GILDED DETAILING (small signs of wear on tips)
ABSOLUTELY MESMERIZING!
The piece is in very good vintage condition; some expected micro crackelure on canvas.
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