↗Peru, North Coast, Chongoyape(?), Chavín style (900-200 BCE) · c. 500–200 BCE
Plaque
Creator not recorded
Gift of Michael F. Resch · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image: public domain (CC0) · Museum record & image source ↗
Costa Rica · c. 1910s
Untitled (Semi-Circle of Children, Central Girl Dressed as an Angel Holding the Baby Jesus)
Andrés and Francisco Hernández
- Date
- c. 1910s
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 15 x 23.9 cm (5 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Country / context
- Costa Rica
- Movement / tradition
- Central and South American arts
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- Central and South American arts ↗
FROM THE MUSEUM
The Foto Imperio photography studio was run by Andrés and Francisco Hernández in San José, Costa Rica. The brothers also ran a bookstore and print shop, and Francisco was a successful cartoonist, too. Here they artfully arranged 35 children to create a group portrait commemorating a religious event—perhaps a Christmas pageant? The girl dressed as an angel holds a baby, while the girl and boy at her feet seem posed as if for a wedding portrait.
Collection text · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
