CREATING THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE: THE CLOTH, THE ARTIST, AND SOURCES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY NEW SPAIN

From: The Americas | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Peterson, Jeanette Favrot | Copyright information

It was in 1531 that, according to the apparition legend first recorded over a hundred years later in 1648, Juan Diego's visionary experience of the Virgin of Guadalupe was miraculously mapped onto his tilma (tilmatli in Nahuatl) or woven cloak. This painted cloth, hereafter referred to as the tilma image, is said to be the same relic venerated today in the basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City (fig. 1). However, no sacred image is invented from whole cloth, to use a highly approp...

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