James Cordova Arts

Bulto, 1993

Hand-carved wood, home-made gesso, water-based natural pigments, piñon-resin varnish, mica.

San Francisco de Asís (Saint Francis of Assisi)

The founder of the Franciscan order. He was the son of a wealthy Italian merchant who forfeited worldly life for a poor, spiritual one. San Francisco is normally clad in gray or blue Franciscan habit and holds a human skull—representation of human mortality—and a cross. He is the patron saint of animals, families and Christian virtues.