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Ecce Homo:
This is a jointed figure, the arms
separately constructed from the shoul-ders. The crown of
thorns is woven, but in a haphazard pattern unlike the
common basketweave. There is carved hair beneath the
wig. The face is peculiarly elongated, staring directly
ahead with enormous, luminous eyes. There is a bloody
lesion on the left cheek. The hands portray the
musculature realistically, but the right hand is oddly
twisted. The skin surface has a rubbery look.
Local Name: El Santo
Nazareño.
Basis for Identification: Standing
in a purple robe, wearing the crown of thorns, lines of
blood on the face.
Other characteristics: Hands
tied together by a rope hanging from the neck.
Site: Church of Santa
Ana del Valle.
Location: On an altar
right of the central altar along the south wall of nave,
to the right of the Candelaria
(see note).
Media and construction: Wood,
gesso, paint, fabric garment.
Eyes: glass, with lashes. Hair: wig.
Size: About 5 feet (150 cm.)
Comparable santos in Oaxaca: Ejutla,
Etla (in the Soldedad
Group), Etla2,
Mitla, Tamazulapan,
Teitipac1,
Teitipac2,
Teitipac3,
Teotitlán,
Teposcolula,
Tilantongo,
Tlacolula,
Xoxocotlán.
External Links:
The episode is in
John
19:1-5.
Wikimedia Commons: Statues of Ecce
Homo.
Next: At
the east end of the south wall is a particularly
striking Crucifixion
Group.
Previous santo
Introduction to Santa Ana del Valle
Santos Home Page
Note: On
this
site,
references to the cardinal directions always assume
that the main altar is at the east end of the church,
the narthex or entry area at the west end, and the two
walls
of the nave on the
north and south. (The
nave is the long central section.)
Actual orientations may differ.
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