ex-voto

• “We'll be in Oaxaca in early September, so I really appreciate your suggestions - especially some of the smaller museums, and most especially the ex-voto collection, which I didn't know about.”

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• “As an art student, when Couper first came across an ex-voto painting -- a small blue painting on rippled tin -- he felt an immediate pull.”

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• “His ex-voto opens for us a window onto a part of daily life rarely visited by historians of colonial Spanish America.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “We know this from the ex-voto he had commissioned to honor the Virgin of Loreto, to whom he attributed his miraculous recovery.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “This particular ex-voto is especially revealing of the comfortable relationship between divine and rational medicine, two seemingly opposed systems of thought, which, in the disease-laden milieu of eighteenth-century Mexico, tended to complement each other.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “Earnest appeals were made by the family and midwife to Nuesta Señora de Tulantongo, to whom the ex-voto is dedicated. 106 Nor can we overlook the early modern preoccupation with mood and state of mind.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “The ex-voto of Maria Narajo, painted in 1774, expresses, both pictorially and with text, the risky business that was childbirth at this time.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “A third, as shown in this ex-voto from the eighteenth century, takes a bad fall while he is collecting corn from a storage area on a rooftop. 109 In these personal testimonies from the eighteenth century, the victims miraculously survived their ordeals.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “The supplications to La Soledad, the patron saint of the city, were successful, but because the parents were slow in fulfilling their vow to commission the ex-voto, Hipólito suffered a relapse of "many symptoms [accidentes] all of them very mortal.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “That this sufferer survived her ordeal is evident from the ex-voto itself, as it was produced to show gratitude for "the marvels" the divine images in it bestowed on the patient. 51 This ex-voto is vivid testimony that la peste was a category of illness to be feared above all else, a sentiment also poignantly expressed in letters the Condesa de Miravalle wrote to her son-in-law, Pedro Romero de Terreros, around this time.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

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