7015B
Tabernacle
Tabernacle
- Artist
- Clemente de Obregón
- Title
- Tabernacle
- Date
- 1677
- Medium
- Wood carving conceived by Felipe de Alvizuri SJ.
- Supposed Location
- Altarpiece, Capilla de la Cofradía de Nuestra Señora de Loreto y San Salvador de los Naturales founded in the now-destroyed Colegio de la Compañía de Jesús, Potosí, Bolivia.
- Photo Source
- Chacón Torres 1973, 229-230.
- Correspondence Credit
- Chacón Torres 1973, 229-230.
- Note
-
The Colegio de la Compañia de Jesús of Potosí —including its chapel of the Cofradía de Nuestra Señora de Loreto y San Salvador de los Naturales— was destroyed after the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. The information given above is taken from the contract signed for the creation of the altarpiece housing the tabernacle described here. This contract is kept at the Archivo de la Casa de Moneda (Potosí, Bolivia), where it was assigned shelfmark Escritos Notariales 129, fol. 421.
- Item
- 7015B
- Correspondences
- Archive: 7015A/7015B
- Archive: 7015A/7015B
