  
The Retablo ("behind the altar"), a small devotional painting, was introduced to Indian converts to Catholicism by the Spanish. A saint's likeness might have been painted on wood, tin, copper, or zinc: in the isolated colonial outpost of Santa Fe, wood was the most readily available substance. The little painting would form part of a believer's personal shrine. The charming retablos reproduced in this set are accompanied by bilingual captions and notes on the subject saints' feast days and subjects of patronage.
Published with The Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of New Mexico. Twenty 4 3/4 x 6 3/4" blank notecards (5 each of 4 styles) with white envelopes in a decorative box.
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