The Benditero and The Brasero

 

Group members

Albert, Adriana, & Johnny Joe

Briefly discribe the images found on your artifacts

The Benditero has a picture of a person holding a crusifix.  He is surrounded by roses and above him two angels hold an eye surrounded by a radiant triangle.  Below him are two angels and the face of a person. 

The Brasero has no images on it and is only decorated with lines and patterns.

Make sketches of the images found on your artifacts

List the various images found on your artifacts and determine their meaning

The person holding the crusifix is most likely St. Luke who wrote one of the gospel and detailed the passion of Christ.  The roses that surround him are more than likely symbolic of the Virgin Mary.  The triangle symbol above him is known as the all-seeing-eye and is a symbol of God'd omnipotence.  The human below likely represents the persons who will be blessed by the Holy Water contained in the Benditero. 

Create a hypothesis about where this object may have been found and who it may have been belonged to

 The Bentitero would most likely be found in a Church of Colonial Mexico and would have held the Holy Water used to blessings at the enterance of the Church. 

The Brasero would have probebly been owned by a rich person, and would have been used to hold burning coals inside the house for use in daily task such as lightling candles or melting wax for seals. 

What, if anything, was similiar amongst all the artifacts examined

We noticed that the Benditero shared a similar image of heaven as the Limosnero.  Both show rays of light surrounding a symbol at the top of the the object. 

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