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Our Lady of Guadalupe - 2021

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This painting offers a bold, contemporary interpretation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, executed with attention to both artistic technique and spiritual significance. Jacob used chiaroscuro methods, creating dramatic contrast between light and shadow that draws immediate focus to our ladys features.

The original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared miraculously in 1531 on Juan Diego's tilma (cloak) in Mexico City, marking a pivotal moment in religious history. The Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill, leaving her image imprinted on his cloak as proof of the divine encounter. This miraculous image showed Mary as a mestiza, wearing a turquoise mantle adorned with stars, speaking to both European and Indigenous peoples.

This modern interpretation maintains the essential elements of the traditional icon while bringing forth a strong, contemporary feminine presence. The artist captures both strength and serenity in the subject's expression, emphasizing defined features and a penetrating gaze that speaks to Mary's role as a maternal protector and spiritual guide. The three-quarter profile view creates an intimate connection with the viewer while maintaining the dignity and grace befitting this sacred subject.

This piece is rendered in acrylic on canvas, utilizing traditional painting techniques to achieve depth and luminosity. Jacobs history in portrait painting, particularly in the subtle gradations around the eyes and cheekbones, creates a lifelike dimension that brings this spiritual figure into life.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe - 2021

from $75.00

This painting offers a bold, contemporary interpretation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, executed with attention to both artistic technique and spiritual significance. Jacob used chiaroscuro methods, creating dramatic contrast between light and shadow that draws immediate focus to our ladys features.

The original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared miraculously in 1531 on Juan Diego's tilma (cloak) in Mexico City, marking a pivotal moment in religious history. The Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill, leaving her image imprinted on his cloak as proof of the divine encounter. This miraculous image showed Mary as a mestiza, wearing a turquoise mantle adorned with stars, speaking to both European and Indigenous peoples.

This modern interpretation maintains the essential elements of the traditional icon while bringing forth a strong, contemporary feminine presence. The artist captures both strength and serenity in the subject's expression, emphasizing defined features and a penetrating gaze that speaks to Mary's role as a maternal protector and spiritual guide. The three-quarter profile view creates an intimate connection with the viewer while maintaining the dignity and grace befitting this sacred subject.

This piece is rendered in acrylic on canvas, utilizing traditional painting techniques to achieve depth and luminosity. Jacobs history in portrait painting, particularly in the subtle gradations around the eyes and cheekbones, creates a lifelike dimension that brings this spiritual figure into life.

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OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Saint Juan Diego on December 9, 10 and 12, 1531.

The image left on Saint Juan Diego’s tilma is the only true picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe in existence.

The image has remained intact with all its original vibrancy for 475 years. The natural life span of a cloak made with fiber from the gave or maguey plant is only about 30 years.

The image is a pictograph which could be read and understood by the Aztec Indians.

Our Lady appears as a beautiful young Indian maiden and Queen.

Her eyes are looking down with humility and compassion. She is human, not God.

She is wearing a blue-green mantle (the color worn by royalty) covered with stars.

The stars signify she comes from heaven – the Queen of Heaven. The constellations are in the exact position as appeared before dawn on the morning of December 12, 1531.

Her robe is colored rose or pale red and covered with Aztec flowers, symbolic of an Aztec princess.

In the center of her robe, overlying her womb, is a four petal quincunx flower in the shape of a cross which is the sign of the Divine and the center of the cosmic order to the Aztec. The Virgin’s Baby, Jesus, is Divine and the new center of the universe.

Her hands are joined in prayer and, therefore, she is not God but clearly there is one greater than she and she points her finger to the cross on her brooch.

Her fur cuffs symbolize royalty.

She wears a black maternity band signifying she is with Child.

A black cross is on the brooch around her neck. This signifies she is a follower of the God of the Spanish Missionaries, Jesus Christ who died on the cross for all.

She stands in front of the sun. The sun symbolizes the greatest Aztec god – Huitzilopochtli. She announces the God who is greater than their sun god.

She stands on the moon. The crescent moon symbolized the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent moon god. She has clearly crushed and defeated him.

An angel with eagle’s wings supports the Mother of God. The eagle was the “bird of the sun.” Here the eagle is the servant of the Virgin. She holds her mantle in one hand and robe with the other, signifying the Son she bears is from both heaven and earth.

To date the image cannot be explained by science.

The image on the tilma was able to do what up to that time the missionaries were not able to do significantly. Namely, clearly explain Christianity to the Indian people. The proof is in the fact that after the apparitions, eight million natives of Mexico converted to Catholicism from 1531 to 1538.