ID: 700008613 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008613	Record Type: Movable Work
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Bulto (sculpture (visual works); possibly Fray Andres Garcia (1760 -1799); 1760-1799)

Note: This sculpture of Saint Isidore is attributed to a Franciscan friar, Fray Andres Garcia. Unfortunately, the face of Saint Isidore has been repainted at least once or twice, and a conclusive attribution is not possible. The Franciscans established missions in New Mexico, the northern frontier of Spanish America, which was first settled at the end of the sixteenth century. Isidore, the patron saint of farmers and protector of crops, was a farm laborer employed by a wealthy landowner near Madrid in the early twelfth century. According to legend, Isidore spent so many hours in prayer that he was in danger of falling behind with his farming chores. As a reward for his exceptional piety, divine intervention dispatched an angel to help Isidore finish his plowing on schedule. This miraculous event is the subject of an eighteenth-century New Mexican devotional sculpture, or bulto. The most important figure in a bulto's composition was typically represented as the largest, sacred hierarchy triumphing over naturalism. This is why Isidore towers above the angel, who in turn outranks the oxen, surpassing them in scale. Bultos such as this one were placed in both homes and churches to help enlist a saint's intercession on behalf of a prayerful supplicant.

Titles:

Bulto (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

lost work [300265226]

..... (Objects Facet, Object Genres (hierarchy name), object genres (object classifications), Kontext oder Herkunft Objektgattung nach Ort)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: 1760-1799

Creator Display:

possibly Fray Andres Garcia (1760 -1799) [preferred,VP]

painter Andrés García, Fray (Colonial Spanish American artist, friar, 1760-1799) Qualifier: possibly by Extent: decoration [500372597]

Locations:

Lost:

Display Materials: painted wood

	wood (plant material) [300011914]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>)

	paint (coating) [300015029]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

Dimensions: as recorded when rendered by the Index of American Design: 11" high; 10 3/4 wide

Cultures:

Colonial Spanish American (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	naive art [300263555] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in the visual arts>, art genres)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	Isadore the Farmer, Saint (Spanish saint, farmer, Madrid, died 1130 ) [500372595]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	angel (spirit) [300379004]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, spirits (beings)) (AAT)

	miracle [300251615]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities)) (AAT)

Related Works:

	depicted in .... Bulto [700008612]
	..........rendering (drawing); rendered by Eldora P. Lorenzini (artist); 1938; National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States); 1943.8.16638

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Bulto	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)