El dulce nombre de María

Villalpando, Cristóbal de (ca. 1649-1714)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1690-1699

Height:

183.0 cm  (72 1/16 in.)

Width:

291.0 cm  (114 9/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Ciudad de México

Additional titles

Description

The canvas' title "El Dulce Nombre de María" (“The Sweet Name of the Virgin Mary”) refers to the Christian liturgical festival on the occasion of the commemoration of the name of Mary, celebrated on 12 September. The celebration was authorized in 1513, and performed in the Spanish city of Cuenca for the first time. From then on it spread all over Spain and the territories abroad controlled by Spain. In 1683 Pope Innocent XI declared the celebration a thanksgiving for the defeat of the Turks at the siege of Vienna. The canvas of Cristóbal de Villalpando presents the Virgin Mary in front of an altar and surrounded by eight angels of which three are associated with musical instruments (harp, viol, and a cornett) and one (on the very right side) seems to hold a song book or musical score (not legible).

Iconclass

11F9(+3)
Mary devotion (+ angel(s))

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Cornett [3868]
Viol [3597]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Maza, Francisco de la. El pintor Cristóbal de Villalpando (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antoropologia e Historia, 1964).

Soberón, Arturo. Cristóbal de Villalpando: El pincel bien temperado (Mexico City: Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura, 1997). ISBN 978-968-29-8923-0

Gutiérrez Haces, Juana; Ángeles, Pedro; Bargellini, Clara; Ruiz Gomar, Rogelio. Cristóbal de Villalpando, ca. 1649-1714 (México, D.F.: Fomento Cultural Banamex, A.C., 1997). ISBN 968-7009-55-1

RIdIM record id

4915