Old Mexican Retablo on Tin of Young Jesus at Cross interdisciplinary book made to hold decorative patches

made to hold decorative patches for the face

all with equal intensity

or further honor

Another early 1900s Dutch school work sampler

Old Mexican Retablo on Tin of Young Jesus at Cross interdisciplinary book made to hold decorative patchesI'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