Jesus Leuus Folk Art

Antique 1850 Mexican colonial style oil on copper religious painting.

A beautiful 19th century Spanish Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring Saint Rita De Cascia. Santa Rita is almost always depicted as she is here, with a trickle of blood and a thorn deeply embedded in her forehead. According to legend, in the year 1441, during a sermon on the Crown of Thorns, Santa Rita prayed so intently that a thorn detached itself from her crucifix and lodged itself in her forehead. For the next fifteen years, she bore this external sign of stigmatization and union with Christ. It was said her wound became so disturbing to view, that she spent the latter part of her life in isolation and prayer. At her canonization ceremony in the year 1900, Santa Rita de Cascia was bestowed the title of Patroness of Impossible Causes. In Mexico, Santa Rita is widely venerated as the Patroness Saint of mothers, abused wives, and heartbroken women. In this work, she is flanked by two small male figures representing her two beloved sons (notice the fine attention to the paintings of their faces and their glowing rosy red cheeks). She holds a large crucifix in one hand and a flagella whip, symbolizing her practice of mortifying the flesh, in her other hand. The work is hand painted on metal (likely tin). Ex-votos and retablos are often placed above the altars in churches or family shrines as votive offerings made in the form of religious pictures...

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 wooden panel featuring the Madonna (Mother Mary) and infant child (a baby Jesus Christ) in her arms. Theotokos is the term for an Eastern icon...

1970s Mexican Modernism oil on canvas painting Mexico signed Gustavo Martinez. Fancy flamboyant rooster is the subject. 24 H x 18 W x 1 D inches Original unrestored vintage conditi...

A beautiful 19th-century Spanish Colonial Mexican Folk Art ex-voto retablo lámina painting featuring an unknown Spanish Roman Catholic Saint. The work is hand-painted on metal (li...

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 Santo Niño de Atocha (also known as - Holy In...

Troels Marstrand said Jacques Mars, The Kiss, Oil on canvas, Danish, circa 1970. Height: 44 cm, length: 62 cm, thickness: 3 cm. Born June 20, 1919 in Copenhagen, died in Nice ...

We offer this rare and original handmade painted in oil on canvas by Mexican painter Ismael Rivera, includes signature, circa 1950.

Title: Djirrididi Design Artist: Jeffery Walkundjawuy (1955-) Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 18 x 27 inches DOC: November 2006 Provenance: Galiwin'ku Community Art Center, Elcho Island, Northern...

An Oil on Canvas Signed L. Nicolas. A follower of Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690 - Paris 1743). This wonderfully detailed oil on canvas of mother and child in a solid carved wood frame....

A playful and whimsical late 20th century Mexican Otomi textile with myriad gold embroidered animals and plants including rabbits, deer, horses, and peac...