Nicolás Enríquez
The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Four Apparitions

1773
Oil on copper
Metropolitan Museum, 2014.173

In the center is a faithful copy of the image on the tilma in Mexico City, supplemented by narrative insets in the four corners. In the two upper Mary appears to St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. In the lower left she places her image on the inside of the saint's mantle. In the lower right, he opens the cloak to show it to the bishop and a number of roses fall out even though it is winter.

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Photographed at the museum by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.