Nicaraguan Cathedral after 1972 Earthquake
Artist
Claudia Gordillo
(born 1954)
Date1982
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsFrame: 20 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (52.1 × 34.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Margaret Randall
Object numberPC2019.71.10
DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of a painting of a woman wearing a long white dress and veil, holding a newborn child while riding sidesaddle on a donkey. An older man walks alongside the pair, wearing long, layered fabrics and leading the animal by a rope. The ages, dress, and arrangement of figures correspond to traditional representations of the infant Christ, the Virgin Mary, and her husband Joseph. A large, vertical crack in the flowerbed beneath the composition continues toward the ceiling, and windows on either side reveal a pair of radio or television towers in the distance and an empty terrace on the right.On View
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