Coronation of Our Lady of the Guadalupe Ceramic Icon Tile Size 6" x 8"

The praying Virgin is presented accompanied by numerous saints and little loves that occupy the rest of the composition. The work also has small borders in which the figure of the Virgin is repeated. It is noteworthy that the figures hold crowns in their hands, thus combining the theme of the Virgin's coronation with the iconography of the Guadalupana. This representation acquired great richness and variety, especially from the 17th century onwards. Our Lady of Guadalupe is a Marian devotion of the Catholic Church, whose image has its main centre of worship in the Basilica of Guadalupe, in the north of Mexico City. According to Mexican oral tradition, it is believed that the Virgin Mary appeared four times to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on the hill of Tepeyac. Juan Diego, in the last apparition of the Virgin, carried in his ayate some flowers that he had cut on Tepeyac, according to the Virgin's order. He unfolded his ayate before Bishop Juan de Zumárraga, revealing the image of the Virgin Mary, a brunette with mestizo features. Since ancient times, the Mesoamerican peoples had already venerated a deity called Tonantzin on the hill of Tepeyac, hence a certain syncretism with the assimilation of the message brought by the Virgin Mary. This event was known as the Miracle of the Roses, and was recorded in the "Nican Mopohua", a text presumably written by the Indian Antonio Valeriano.
Pedro López Calderón was a Mexican painter active during the first half of the 18th century. Devoted mainly to religious painting, he collaborated regularly with orders such as the Franciscan Order of San Luis Potosí. 

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NB! Wooden stand visible in mockup pictures is NOT included.