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- noun Plural form of
ex-voto .
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Couper soon started collecting both retablos -- paintings dedicated to a particular saint -- and ex-votos, which describe personal experiences and offer thanks.
John Seed: Matthew Couper: A Devotional Painter in Las Vegas John Seed 2011
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Couper soon started collecting both retablos -- paintings dedicated to a particular saint -- and ex-votos, which describe personal experiences and offer thanks.
John Seed: Matthew Couper: A Devotional Painter in Las Vegas John Seed 2011
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Another from the eighteenth century displays the perils people faced when crossing rivers during the summer, Mexico's wet season, as it shows a man being swept away by raging water. 12 Horses, like cars today, appear frequently in the ex-votos as a constant source of accidents.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Although the majority of historical ex-votos housed in museums, sanctuaries, and private collections are from the national period, when the practice spread to the popular classes, I have tried to limit my use of them here to those produced during the colonial years, even though they are less plentiful than the later ones and were generally commissioned by people exclusively from the upper and middle classes.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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As with personal letters of the time, the painted scenes in colonial ex-votos vividly reveal the dangers of everyday life in New Spain.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Many examples can be found in painted ex-votos from the eighteenth century.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Ultimately, divine medicine wins the day, as it does in all ex-votos, but in this one the earthly practitioners are openly in awe of the Virgin's healing powers (at least according to the ex-voto's creator), admitting great admiration for such a quick recovery under such hopeless circumstances.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Over the years, thanks to an oral tradition of legends and testimony of divine interventions and miracle cures, these images became objects of votive supplication. 121 The most vivid historical evidence of this spiritual medical marketplace exists in the ex-votos from the colonial period and nineteenth century.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Like Nicolas Calvo's, with which I began this Introduction, all ex-votos have one common theme: surviving the calamities of everyday life.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The personal testimonies in the form of ex-votos left by survivors of these accidents provide one of the best windows we have to view this side of life.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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