José Benito Ortega, the last of the late 19th-century santeros, traveled throughout northern New Mexico and southern Colorado making santos for small chapels, meeting houses, village homes, and for Penitentes (members of a religious brotherhood) from the 1870s to the early 1900s. José Benito Ortega(1858-1941)Nuestra Señora del Rosario, ca. 1875cottonwood, gesso and natural pigments 20″ x 8″ x ...