James Cordova Arts

Bulto, 2000

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

Angel de la Guardia (Guardian Angel)

A generalized representation of an unnamed angel whose divine function is to guard over the soul of a specific living person. The guardian angel is prayed to for general protection against evil and as an advocate before God. Usually these angels are portrayed holding a crown (to be rewarded to a penitent soul as a crown of life and salvation at the end of human life and the beginning of eternal life). In other images the angel holds the soul of the person to whom he/she is a guardian or a candle to light the way of righteousness for the living