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Preferred term

Retablos  

Definition

  • Votive paintings on tin, copper, wood or canvas produced in Mexico and the southwestern USA from Spanish Colonial times and made as offerings of religious devotion or thanksgiving, often for assistance through divine intervention of the holy personage depicted; cf. Santos

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Santos retablos
  • Votive paintings, retablos

Notation

  • 118193

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-CKBPL1QK-5

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