James Cordova Arts

Retablo, 1999

Wood, home-made gesso, water based natural pigments, piñon-resin varnish, leather.

San Ignacio de Loyola (Saint Ignacius Loyola)

The founder of the Jesuit order, San Ignacio was a basque soldier before he became religious. He is depicted in a black cassock or chasuble and sometimes wears a biretta and holds a book with the inscription "IHS," the Latin acronym for the Society of Jesus. He is the patron saint against witchcraft and illness.