St. Bonaventure

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St. Bonaventure

Artist Andrés López (Mexican, 1727 - 1807)

Place of OriginMexico

Date18th century

Dimensions17 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (44.5 × 34.3 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Edward B. Davison and Cathy O. Blight, M.D., and Fenton M. and Marilyn M. Davison

Object number

2021.10

Not on View

DescriptionThe Four Doctors, or Fathers, of the Latin Church are St. Ambrose, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and St. Gregory the Great. The present series includes St. Jerome and St. Gregory the Great, but substitutes for St. Ambrose and St. Augustine two other later doctrinal writers, St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure, granted the title Doctor of the Church since the 16th century. St. Bonaventure – Bonaventure (1221-1274), rendered in the habit of his Franciscan Order, but with a blue component worn only by Spanish Franciscans on foreign missions, hence the blue habit was familiar in New Spain. His red cloak indicates that he was a cardinal. Sitting in a colonial armchair, he holds a pen and an open book.

Published Referencesrts, The Fenton R. McCreery Collection of Mexican Colonial Paintings, 1971, nrs. 6-9 [with other three paintings in series].Exhibition HistoryFlint, MI, Flint Institute of Arts, The Fenton R. McCreery Collection of Mexican Colonial Paintings, 1971, nrs. 6-9 [with other three paintings in series].