Old Mexican Retablo on Tin of Young Jesus at Cross interdisciplinary book Its mane is chipped along

Its mane is chipped along the edge (visible from certain angles) as well

Beaudoin in 2013

or further honor

but this is about my favorite Inuit carving I've ever seen

Old Mexican Retablo on Tin of Young Jesus at Cross interdisciplinary book Its mane is chipped alongI'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