This large archival pigment print 24” x 14” documents the simple line cartoon design used for the foundation and composition behind the finished altarpiece (192” x 108”) at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary.
The painting documents and celebrates the meeting in 1531 of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Juan Diego when she said to him: “Am I not here, I who am your Mother?” The design also draws out the correlation of the miraculous event to the Book of the Apocalypse 12-1: “And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars”.
Vulgate Bible: “Et signum magnum apparuit in caelo : mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim”.
This large archival pigment print 24” x 14” documents the simple line cartoon design used for the foundation and composition behind the finished altarpiece (192” x 108”) at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary.
The painting documents and celebrates the meeting in 1531 of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Juan Diego when she said to him: “Am I not here, I who am your Mother?” The design also draws out the correlation of the miraculous event to the Book of the Apocalypse 12-1: “And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars”.
Vulgate Bible: “Et signum magnum apparuit in caelo : mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim”.
