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Image of the Virgin Mary Mother of God of Guadalupe (Spanish: Imagen de la Virgen María, madre de Dios de Guadalupe) published in 1648, was the first written account of the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It retells the events of the 1531 apparitions that led to the Marian veneration in Mexico City, New Spain.
Yolanda Margarita López was born on November 1, 1942, in San Diego, California, [4] to Margaret Franco and Mortimer López. [2] She was a third-generation Chicana. [5] [6] Her grandparents migrated from Mexico to the United States, crossing the Río Bravo river in a boat while avoiding gunfire from the Texas Rangers. [7]
Marcos Cipac de Aquino (?–1572), informally known as Marcos the Indian, was a Nahuatl artist in sixteenth-century Mexico, who may have been the painter of the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Art historian Jeanette Favrot Peterson has ventured, "Marcos Cipac (de Aquino) was the artist of the Mexican Guadalupe, capable of executing a large ...
Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe (Spanish: Virgen de Guadalupe), is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with four Marian apparitions to Juan Diego and one to his uncle, Juan Bernardino reported in December 1531, when the Mexican territories were part of the ...
La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo los Derechos de Los Xicanos is an etching and aquatint created by Hernandez in 1976 while she was a student at UC Berkeley. [1] This print is in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Museum of Art. [6] It is considered to be the first art to reimagine Our Lady of Guadalupe in a Chicana feminist context.
The Casa de los Gatos or Casa dels Gats is an animal shelter in Valencia, Spain. Its house-shaped facade was made by artist Alfonso Yuste Navarro in 2003. Its house-shaped facade was made by artist Alfonso Yuste Navarro in 2003.
To Lopez, La Virgen de Guadalope is more than a religious symbol. She is a public figure and a symbol of her culture, community and family. La Virgen also served as symbols in art work for the Chicano Movement and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico which Lopez cites as further support that La Virgen is not only a religious symbol.
Hernández in “La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo Los Derechos de los Xicanos” dresses La Virgen de Guadalupe in a karate Gi and poses her in an impassioned kicking stance. Ester Hernandez juxtaposes the meaning of La Virgen as a calm nonviolent peace symbol into an image that evokes force and strength. [38]