Ex Voto Painting

Ex-voto paintings, especially in the Latin world, there is a tradition of votive paintings, typically depicting a dangerous incident which the offeror survived.

Nautical ex voto, votive painting, tempera on cardboard, made by the marine painter Giovanni Luzzo, depicting the steamship Roana in trouble among the waves.

In addition to amassing the important Historia Collection of Spanish Colonial art, folk art, Mexican retablos and ex-votos, santos, paintings, dance masks, ceramics, textiles, ethnog...

A beautiful 19th-century Spanish Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring a crucified Jesus Christ, angel, or saint (possibly Saint Sebastian who was a Rom...

Ex-voto paintings, especially in the Latin world, there is a tradition of votive paintings, typically depicting a dangerous incident which the offeror survived.

A beautiful 19th-century Spanish Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring Saint Francis of Assisi, the Catholic patron saint of animals, birds, and the env...

A beautiful early to mid-20th century Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring the Virgin of Guadalupe.

A beautiful 19th-century Spanish Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring Mother Mary with the infant Jesus Christ (faded and now almost a ghost-like figur...

A beautiful 19th-century Spanish Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring Mother Mary with the crowned infant Jesus Christ (standing on clouds) in her arms.

A beautiful 19th century Spanish Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring Saint Rita De Cascia.

Bearing some semblance to retablos, 'ex-votos' are devotional paintings on canvas or tin which offer thanks to a particular saint in the form of a short narrative.

Bearing some semblance to retablos, 'ex-votos' are devotional paintings on canvas or tin which offer thanks to a particular saint in the form of a short narrative.

Bearing some semblance to retablos, 'ex-votos' are devotional paintings on canvas or tin which offer thanks to a particular saint in the form of a short narrative.

This extremely fine 19th century ex-voto painting on tin is an offering of thanks, dedicated to 'Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos' - shown upper left.

Ex-votos can take a wide variety of forms. They are not only intended for the helping figure, but also as a testimony to later visitors of the received help. As such they may include...

A good, large 19th century Italian ex-voto painting on canvas which depicts a family praying to Saint Nicholas for the healtful recovery of their ailing father.

Excellent Mexican Ex Voto Oil on Canvas.

Glass protects the panel. Large wooden frame (some cracks and a small part missing in the angle of the left top). Faded silk on the back. Metal vases with fabric flowers.

A scarce Baroque Period Spanish altarpiece retablo / reredo, by (attributed) Luis Salvador Carmona (1708-1767), depicting thorn crowned Christ crucified / Cristo crucificado hand car...

Lovely 18th Century shrine in polychrome cedar. Rectangular box, topped by a cut pediment carved with flowers, flanked by a pair of tips – like simplified obelisks. Sides and pair of...

This remarkable, deeply evocative fragment is a hand-carved piece of religious statuary from 16th Century France. It depicts the torso of a serene figure, likely a Saint or Archangel...

Interesting oil on canvas depicting the Virgin and Child, belonging to the Colonial School, almost certainly Cusco (Peru). It dates from the mid-19th century and is unsigned. The wor...

18th Century Spanish Colonial Painting of Christ on the Cross with a floral border. Painting inscribed at bottom BER DADERAFE DELSD LOS MILAGROS(translates to “True Faith of the Lord...

We offer this original Mexican ex voto, due to the effects of time, the writing has been erased.

19th century Spanish Colonial carved giltwood Triptych of Virgin Mary & Christ Child Late 19th century, South America Of exceptional quality, the hinged three panel devotional ic...

A beautifully engaging, darkly nuanced Theotokos of Vladimir Russian icon (or possibly Our Lady of Kazan Icon/Mother of God of Kazan) tempera painting (and possibly gold leaf) on a w...

A Retablo is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. Depicting a Saint and a child painted o...

Large oil painting of the holy family on hand woven canvas. Peruvian or Bolivian. Acquired from an estate in the San Francisco Bay Area from a gentleman who had been in the first w...

Sculpture, carved wood, glass, metal. Carved wooden chapel with decoration on the top of balustrade and balusters in the shape of a vase of a certain Baroque memory, which presents t...

"Santiago in Nicho" is a carved and painted wooden retablo by an unknown Mexican folk artist. This piece features a man on a white horse inside a niche. The doors, which feature flow...