Our Lady of Mount Carmel:
The hair is not well executed. Where it
meets the neck and inside of the veil, the finishing is
perfunctory. It would seem to be simply plaster, though
the sheen of the face is quite unlike the chalky look of
plaster. The Virgin's large halo, a hollow golden circle
of rays, stands vertically behind the head.
Local Name: La
Virgen del Carmen.
Basis for Identification: Brown
habit and bib, halo, child, scapulars, full crowns.
Other characteristics: goes here
Site: Church of San
Juan Guelavia.
Location: In a glass
case in the north wall of the narthex (see note).
Media and construction: Wood,
gesso, paint, metal crowns.
Both figures have glass eyes, lashes, and carved hair.
Size: About 4 feet (120 cm.)
Comparable santos in Oaxaca: Coixtlahuaca
main altar, Cuilapan, Ejutla, Etla, Huitzo, Teitipac, Teposcolula,
Tlaxiaco,
Xoxocotlán,
Zaachila,
Zimatlán.
External Links:
Wikimedia Commons:
Statues
of
Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Mexico
Wikipedia: Our
Lady of Mount Carmel, Virgen
del Carmen (in
Spanish).
Christian Iconography: Our
Lady of Mount Carmel
Next: Also
along the north wall, a statue of Christ in the
pretorium
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Introduction to San Juan Guelavia
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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