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| Angelina Montes, 1948, Artist unknown, State of Michoacan, Oil on tin: 7" x 10", Purchased with funds from Friends of Latin American Art. |
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VOTIVE PAINTING
n Mexican popular art, the term retablo refers to small paintings on tin, wood, or canvas, which are found on walls behind altars to saints or other sacred figures. Often they serve as ex-votos, as does this one, which expresses gratitude for the successful intervention by the Virgin of Guadalupe during a crisis. Retablo painting reached its height in Mexico during the middle of the 19th century. Many retablos were painted by itinerant artists who traveled from town to town filling individual orders.
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