- Title
- Cristo Negro crucifix
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- Description
- A carved wooden cross made from branches with a dark stained figure of Christ crucified. He is wearing a white painted cloth around his waist. Blood drips down his forehead and face in red paint from the crown of thorns atop his head. Green vines with white blossoms are painted wrapped around the branches of the cross.
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- Format Extent
- 1 wooden cross; 54.6 x 41.3 cm (21 1/2 X 16 1/4 in)
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- Subject
- Crosses; Jesus Christ--Crucifixion; Liturgical Art; Religious objects--Christianity; Woodworking--religious aspects
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- Note
- Featured in the Loyola Marymount University gallery show “The Color of God” in October 2003, label read: “Black Christ Crucifix Worn, polished areas on the corpus (where the dark color is worn away) is created by the touching by devotional hands over the centuries.
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- Collection
- Jim and Jeanne Pieper Collection, AR-010, A1362
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- Donor
- Jim and Jeanne Pieper
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- Type
- ["Crucifixes"]
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- Keywords
- ["Blossoms","Catholicism"]
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- Geographic Location
- Guatemala
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