The El Paso Museum of Art
announces the retablos exhibition
The Christ Child of Atocha – El Niño de Atocha
May 10, 2009 – September 6, 2009

Please join us on Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 2:00 pm at the El Paso Museum of Art in the Dorrance and Olga Roderick Gallery dedicated to Spanish Viceroyal art of Mexico for an introductory public lecture about The Christ Child of Atocha - El Niño de Atocha retablos exhibition. The speaker for this event, Ms. Nancy Hamilton, noted retablos collector and scholar, will inform the public about the subject's popularity and history as well as discuss the changing iconography and symbolism associated with the narrative. A reception will follow. This event is free to the public.

El Niño de Atocha is a legendary child-figure from the 13th century Moorish invasions of Atocha, Spain, who was said to have miraculously brought food and water to the Christian prisoners. The Spaniards introduced this subject to the indigenous populations ofMexico and it soon became one of the most widely depicted subjects from the 19th century onward to this day.

Image credit:
Anonymous (Mexico, 19th C)
Holy Child of Atocha, 19th C
Oil on tin
El Paso Museum of Art
Gift of Mrs. Dubois Tobin

Sponsored by
the Dorrance and Olga Roderick Endowment of the El Paso Museum of Art, City of El Paso.

For more information, or to RSVP, please call (915) 532-1707

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