Title: The lmmaculate Conception - Baltazar de Echave Ibía
Date Created: 1000
In this work, the image of the Virgin stands out clearly in the center foreground from which it emerges against a background of bright, deep blue, a color with which, for years, this neo- Hispanic painter was identified. The painting is framed by four clouds located at its outer edges, on each of which is posed a group of angels bearing various Marian litanies which constitute emphatic evidence that the Virgin Man7 was conceived sinless. She is the mother of Christ, and Her imagery has been copiously developed across the centuries in response to the great need of Christians and of clerics to erect a mother figure. Mary is wearing a great blue robe with a red lining and gold brocade, along with a white tunic with a belt girded so high above the waist as to suggest that She is pregnant. Her facial expression is more arid than delicate. Apart from chastity this highly apocalyptic vision -where Mary is portrayed with symbols such as the sun shining on Her crown-circled head, a snake at Her feet coiled around the inverted horns of the moon, and assorted items such as a tower, a beach, a city with certain buildings, some lilies and an orchard, reminding us of Her spotless origins— is suggestive of the Franciscan visiin which made such portrayals of the Virgin popular in the early XVIIth century. This work entered the MUNAL from the San Diego Viceregal Painting Gallery in the year 2000.
Original Spanish object note: En esta obra, la imagen de la Virgen sobresale visiblemente en primer plano central del que emerge sobre un claro y profundo fondo azul, color con el que por años se identificó a este pintor novohispano. Cuatro nubes en posición marginal enmarcan la pintura; sobre cada una posa un grupo de ángeles portando diversas letanías marianas que representan las pruebas enfáticas de que la virgen María fue concebida sin pecado. Ella, la madre de Jesucristo, cuya iconografía se ha desarrollado de forma cuantiosa a través de los siglos, como consecuencia de la necesidad cristiana y clerical de erigir una figura materna. María porta un manto azul con forro rojo y brocados en oro, una túnica blanca con un cinturón tan arriba de la cintura que la sugiere embarazada. Su rostro emana una expresión más árida que grácil. Esta visión tan apocalíptica - e n la que María es presentada con símbolos que reiteran la pureza de su origen: el sol iluminando su cabeza rodeada por una corona, una serpiente a sus pies enroscada sobre los invertidos cuernos de la luna, y diversos elementos como la torre, una playa, una ciudad y ciertas construcciones, lirios, un huert o - sugiere, aparte de la castidad, la visión franciscana que popularizó este tipo de representación de la Virgen hacia principios del siglo XVII. Esta obra ingresó al MUNAL procedente de la Pinacoteca Virreinal de San Diego en el 2000.
Original title: Inmaculada Concepción
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