DepartmentLatin America

Cross

NameCross

Maker Joaquín López Antay (Peruvian, 1897 - 1981)

Dateca. 1960

Place madeHuamanga, Ayacucho, Peru, South America

MediumWood, gesso, paint, glass

DimensionsOverall: 35 7/16 x 23 5/8 x 9 13/16 in. (90 x 60 x 25 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.1979.9.1

Object numberFA.1979.9.1

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionArma Christi with Christ represented only as a face in a small glass fronted dark box with gold edges and radiant projections at each corner attached at the intersection of the cross. Instruments of the Passion are molded and applied, the whole on red ground, with yellow, white, green, gold, silver, pink, blue and black.