madamelesfressange: Salve Regina (Series 1)1. “Retrato d
madamelesfressange: Salve Regina (Series 1)1. “Retrato de sor Manuela Meza Reinoso, convento de “La Enseñanza Nueva” de México, óleo sobre tela, sin medidas, 1827″2. Manuel Montes, Retrato de profesión de sor Ana Francisca de la Encarnación Villaseñor y Ortega (detalle), convento de Santa Teresa de Guadalajara, sin medidas, 1751 3. Anónimo mexicano, Retrato de profesión de sor María Joaquina del Señor San Rafael (detalle), convento de Los Siete Príncipes de Oaxaca 4.Anónimo, Retrato de profesión de sor María del Rosario (apellidos civiles no identificados), convento de Santa Mónica de Puebla, 5.Portrait of Sor Juana de la Cruz Cortés and Arauz from the convent of San Jeronimo de Mexico, c. 1740-1760 6. Portrait of Sister Mary of Saint-Joseph. Crowned nun of Santa Mónica Convent, Puebla, Mexico. S. XVIII. #5 larger! Las Monjas coronadas18th century Mexican tradition of producing portraits of nuns on their profession day, a tradition that combines European & Mesoamerican imagery and ritual practices. (source)Since the seventeenth century, in the convents of New Spain, the novice who swears their perpetual vows in the profession ceremony is portrayed with ornaments and jewels, like the queen of a mystical carnival, within the American pictorial genre that was called “crowned nuns ”.On the day of her profession, the young woman came dressed in all the ornaments that her godfather or guardian could afford, wearing the fashion of the century, and then shed her clothes and jewelry. The curtain concealed the transformation: she cut her hair, and took the habit of the order, the crown of the victory of the virtues, the flowering palm of virginity, the lit candle of faith (based on the chapter of the Prudent Virgins) ; if her order was an urbanista, she carried in her hands the figure of the Holy Infant; if the order was recoleta and more austere, she would hold a crucifix.A monja coronada painting might be made of the nun on the day she professed her vows, on the anniversary of that day, or as a death portrait.^Maker unknown, Mexican - Portrait of the Reverend Mother María Antonia de Rivera - Google Art Project^Sor María Juana de Señor San Rafael y Martínez^Sr. María Ignacia Candelaria of the Holy Trinity^I think this one is likely a death portrait. I’m having trouble reading the caption at the top right.^death portrait of Sor Matiana Francisca del Señor San José -- source link
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