Old Mexican Retablo on Tin of Young Jesus at Cross wall cabinet and a sweet cloth mend

and a sweet cloth mend on the binding

modular in scale

including its beautiful jar form

perfectly imperfect

Old Mexican Retablo on Tin of Young Jesus at Cross wall cabinet and a sweet cloth mendI'm not the best with Chrisitian iconography, but I believe this subject of this antique Mexican retablo is a young Jesus, with the cross and crown of thorns behind him foreshadowing his death, and the lily in his hand his resurrection. I really like the fact that he looks both like a baby and and old man, hovering between clouds above and below, and with the wear to the paint giving a sense of rain or tears streaming down. And the black of his gown