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Retablos or "laminas" as they are known in Mexico, are small
oil paintings on tin, zinc, wood or copper which venerate a multiplicity
of Catholic saints. Dating to after the Spanish conquest,
retablos were used in home altars and churches as devotional icons
and were commonly invoked for protection against plagues, fires, temptation,
poverty, infertility and sin. Patron saints like "San Ysidro
Labrador" were invoked before harvest for prosperous crop and
confessors may have confided in "San Juan Nepomuceno," the
patron saint of lawyers and Bohemia. |
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Colonial Arts
1782 Union Street, Suite 2, San Francisco, CA 94123 USA
415-505-0680 or colonialarts@aol.com
1782 Union Street, Suite 2, San Francisco, CA 94123 USA
415-505-0680 or colonialarts@aol.com