TREASURES FROM MEDIEVAL TO BAROQUE ART
Colonial school, Mexico, 19th century. Guadalupe’s Virgin. Oil on canvas. Signed Ysauro G. Cervantes. The Virgin represented in the center of the composition surrounded by rays of light, on a crescent moon, is dressed in a pink tunic and a blue cloak, which covers her head, decorated with stars. It rests on the crescent moon supported by an angel with blue, yellow and red wings. The head slightly tilted to the right is in a prayerful attitude. The authorship of the painting of the Virgin is attributed to the indigenous artist Marcos Cipac de Aquino, who is presumed to have made the painting commissioned by the second archbishop of Mexico, Alonso de Montúfar. The “Guadalupana” belongs to a German Flemish iconographic model called mulier amicta sole (the woman surrounded by the sun) dating from the Middle Ages. 155 x 86 cm.
