Crown for a Santos Figure

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The Santos Crown represents the popularity of Santos art in colonial Latin America. This crown was meant for a statue of a religious figure to depict their divinity in the Catholic realm. It tells the story of colonization through details and material of the object. In this time period Spanish colonizers engraved Catholicism into the polytheistic culture of natives residing in current-day Latin America. An ornate crown, such as this, shows the craftsmanship and ability that European colonizers took advantage of for themselves and their home countries. The crown is able to subtly tell a narrative about colonization, which means it is crucial to understand the complete background of the crown itself.

Artist Unknown, Crown for a Santos Figure, 17th century. Silver, 4 x 2 3/4 in., Gift of John W. Reish. 59.036.000

3D Scanned by Tony Pawlosky at the University of Miami (HIS 267/AMS321). Captured with iPhone 13 Pro Max using Polycam. Annotation Author: Tony Pawlosky