Pedro Antonio Fresquís (1749-1831) San José con Niño, c. 1800 Wood, gesso, natural pigments 33.5 x 11 x 6.5 inches Pedro Antonio Fresquís, a santero believed to be of Flemish decent, was born at Santa Cruz parish on October 29, 1749. He married Maria Dolores Vigil in the 1760s and they had 5 children: Mariana ...
Luis Alberto Mora Valencia (born c.1940) is a master Mexican santero who is keeping alive the santero tradition. He is self taught, drawing on his natural talent and his rigorous Jesuit education. In the decades that he has worked he has created hundreds of bultos for churches and private collectors throughout Mexico and the United ...
A number of the 18th and 19th century New Mexican Santeros carved crucifixes, but none so exquisitely as the Santo Niño Santero. The Santo Niño Santero was so named by E. Boyd, the well-known curator of the Museum of International Folk Art through the 1970s, based on several small identical carvings of the Niño in ...