please help educate mrs. jones! at a little folk art market in santa fe, this piece caught my eye….i loved the broken gilding on the top and edges, and was intrigued by the images on the panels. despite a language barrier, they were happy to accept mr. jones’s amex card, and so the impulse purchase was made. now, i must know: who are the figures in the pictures? what is this small shrine kind of thing called? (it’s 4 inches tall.) on the back of the tag, it said “la nina tocha”, which loosely translates – i think! - into “the girl handmade”. does that refer to the artisan who created it, or to one of the images? anybody?
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i bought something similar to this in the straw market in new orleans! i will make a picture when i am home. i love this, of course.
i don’t know specifics about this piece or the pictures, but i do know that a two-paneled piece like this is called a diptych (three panels is a triptych). thank you, art history class!
Your diptych is in honor of a saint “La Nina Tocha” pictured in left side. It folds so it’s portable to carry with you…I can’t recall what the saint was famous for, but you could Google it. Really pretty…isn’t Santa Fe fabulous? Taos, also…
thank you gayle, i so appreciate your info. i have googled to no avail…must do more research. thanks!