Reliquary of the Crucifixion with Devotee / Coronation of the Virgin of Copacabana

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Reliquary of the Crucifixion with Devotee / Coronation of the Virgin of Copacabana

Date: early 19th century

Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Karen Rymer Moore and Jeffrey Moore

Object number: 98.7.1

Inscribed: On the side of the Crucifixion, the cartouche reads: "el devoto que Resa un Credo ganara [cuaridias] dias de [indulgencia]"

Published References Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portrairs (Yale University Press, 2004), plate 57.

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Although referred to as "reliquaries," very few of these eighteenth and nineteenth century objects ever contained relics of saints. Instead, they were used to express continuing devotion to a particular saint or to show thanks for a favor received. (Marion Oettinger, 1998)

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Reliquary of the Crucifixion with Devotee / Coronation of the Virgin of Copacabana

Reliquary of the Crucifixion with Devotee / Coronation of the Virgin of Copacabana