In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Painted in New Mexico, this small religious scene, or retablo, was meant for private devotion in a chapel or home. Retablos typically depict saints, angels, or the Virgin Mary. Saint Rosalia of Palermo, shown here wearing a coarse woolen cloth, typical of Augustinian nuns, and a crown of roses for her chastity, is often invoked during times of plague or disease. Saint Rosalia became the patron saint of Palermo, Italy, when her bones were said to have ended the plague there in 1624. She also holds a skull and scourge (whip), objects related to her martyrdom and ascetic life.
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The Laguna Santero — Saint John of Nepomuk (San Juan Nepomuc
Antonio Molleno — Saint Blasius
José Raphael Aragon — Saint Lawrence (San Lorenzo)
José Benito Ortega — Saint Barbara (Santa Barbara)
José Aragon — Saint Raymond Nonnatus (San Ramon Nonato)
José Raphael Aragon — Holy Child of Atocha (Santo Niño de At
Pedro Fresquis — Nuestra Señora de los Lagos
anonymous — A Holy Bishop
José Aragon — Saint Joseph the Patriarch (San José Patriarca
Wolfgang — Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Anonymous, German, 15th century — Bearded Saint with a Sword
Santo Niño Santero — Saint Raymond Nonnatus (San Ramon Nonat
