DepartmentLatin America
Holy Family
NameSculpture in a box (retablo)
Artist or maker
Luis Acosta
Date2007-2008
Place madeMerida, Venezuela, South America
MediumWood, ceramic, paint, metal
DimensionsOverall: 8 11/16 x 6 11/16 x 2 3/8 in. (22 x 17 x 6 cm)
Credit LineIFAF Collection
Object numberFA.2008.22.7
DescriptionHoly Family image of bearded, haloed man with staff and haloed woman, both wearing red gowns. Woman holds small child in green clothing. Figures glued into a wooden nicho painted orange and decorated with painted, long leaved white flowers with blue stems.
Late 18th - early 19th century
Artist not recorded