Atrio Cross, Tepeyac, Detail
Date
1545-1555
Creator
Name(s) currently unknown
Location
Basílica de Guadalupe, Tepeyac, Mexico City, MEX
Introduction
Like other atrio crosses, this one is carved with pictures and symbols relating to Jesus’ Passion—the trials he endured after being captured by the Romans and sent to be crucified.
Patronage/Artist
Elena Estrada de Gerlero speculates that the cross was made by a highly trained indigenous sculptor around the time that the archbishop Montúfar founded a hermitage at Tepeyac. The carver probably worked from models provided and discussed by the Franciscans, as well as his own knowledge of stone carving.
Photo credit
Jaime Lara
Cite as
Dana Leibsohn and Barbara E. Mundy.
Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820. http://www.fordham.edu/vistas, 2015.
Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820. http://www.fordham.edu/vistas, 2015.
Selected bibliography
Estrada de Gerlero, Elena Isabel. 1990. "Atrial Cross." In Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries. Pp. 250-251. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lara, Jaime. 1996. “El espejo en la cruz: una reflexión medieval sobre las cruces atriales méxicanas.” Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas 18 (69): 5-40.
Lara, Jaime. 2004. City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Lara, Jaime. 1996. “El espejo en la cruz: una reflexión medieval sobre las cruces atriales méxicanas.” Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas 18 (69): 5-40.
Lara, Jaime. 2004. City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Collection
Citation
“Atrio Cross, Tepeyac, Detail,” VistasGallery, accessed September 18, 2024, https://vistasgallery.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/1636.