ID: 700008612 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008612	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Bulto (rendering (drawing); rendered by Eldora P. Lorenzini (artist); 1938; National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States); 1943.8.16638)

Note: Reproductive record drawing of an object of Southwestern folk art, as part of the Index of American Design, produced between 1935 and 1942. This drawing represents a sculpture of Saint Isidore, the patron saint of farmers and protector of crops, was a farm laborer employed by a wealthy landowner near Madrid in the early twelfth century. According to legend, Isidore spent so many hours in prayer that he was in danger of falling behind with his farming chores. As a reward for his exceptional piety, divine intervention dispatched an angel to help Isidore finish his plowing on schedule. This miraculous event is the subject of an eighteenth-century New Mexican devotional sculpture, or bulto. The most important figure in a bulto's composition was typically represented as the largest, sacred hierarchy triumphing over naturalism. This is why Isidore towers above the angel, who in turn outranks the oxen, surpassing them in scale. Bultos such as this one were placed in both homes and churches to help enlist a saint's intercession on behalf of a prayerful supplicant. This sculpture of Saint Isidore is attributed to a Franciscan friar, Fray Andres Garcia. Unfortunately, the face of Saint Isidore has been repainted at least once or twice, and a conclusive attribution is not possible. The Franciscans established missions in New Mexico, the northern frontier of Spanish America, which was first settled at the end of the sixteenth century. Fray Andrés Garcia was a Franciscan friar born in la Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico.

Titles:

Bulto (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

rendering (drawing) [300034727] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, drawings (visual works), <drawings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1938

Creator Display:

rendered by Eldora P. Lorenzini (artist) [preferred,VP]

renderer Lorenzini, Eldora P. (American draftsman, 1910-1993) [500294193]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States) [500115983] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1943.8.16638

Credit Line: Index of American Design

Display Materials: watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paper

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	pens (drawing and writing implements) [300022452]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

Dimensions: overall: 55.9 x 40.2 cm (22 x 15 13/16 in.)

General Subject:

another work (preferred)

(description)

Specific Subjects:

	Isadore the Farmer, Saint (Spanish saint, farmer, Madrid, died 1130 ) [500372595]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	miracle [300251615]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities)) (AAT)

	angel (spirit) [300379004]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, spirits (beings)) (AAT)

Provenance: Index of American Design Exhibition History 2002 Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, no. 7, as Bulto of San Isidro.

Inscriptions: lower left in black ink: Lorenzini -- Aug 29, 1938

Related Works:

	depicts .... Bulto [700008613]
	..........sculpture (visual works); possibly Fray Andres Garcia (1760 -1799); 1760-1799

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Bulto	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)