Mexican school; following 20th century models.

Mexican school; following models of the XX century.
"Virgin of Guadalupe".
Oil on brass.
Measurements: 19 x 15 cm.
The iconography of Guadalupe acquired great richness and variety especially from the seventeenth century. The representation that occupies us follows faithfully the one of the original canvas (attributed to the indigenous Marcos Cípac, XVI century): the half moon at her feet supported by an angel, the rays bordering the figure, the mandorla, the crown, the dark complexion of the Virgin... Our Lady of Guadalupe is a Marian invocation of the Catholic Church, whose image has its main center of worship in the Basilica of Guadalupe, in the north of Mexico City. According to Mexican oral tradition, it is believed that the Virgin Mary appeared four times to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on the hill of Tepeyac. Juan Diego, in the last apparition of the Virgin, carried in his ayate some flowers that he cut in Tepeyac, according to the order of the Virgin. He unfolded his ayate before Bishop Juan de Zumárraga, revealing the image of the Virgin Mary, dark and with mestizo features. The Mesoamerican peoples from remote times already venerated in the hill of Tepeyac a deity called Tonantzin, hence there is a certain syncretism with the assimilation of the message brought by the Virgin Mary. This event was known as the Miracle of the Roses, and was recorded in the "Nican Mopohua", a text presumably written by the Indian Antonio Valeriano.