Y se burlarán de Él y le escupirán, le azotarán y le matarán, y tres días después resucitará. Origen de la escultura del Señor de las Maravillas de la ciudad de Puebla

Abstract

The polychrome sculpture Señor de las Maravillas (Lord of Marvels) belongs to the temple within the former convent of Santa Monica in the city of Puebla. It is a highly popular statue and subject of a widespread devotion among catholic groups, not only in the state of Puebla, but throughout the country, and even with immigrants that often go visit it to ask for miracles and indulgences. Around this sculpture there is a whole devotional and anthropological  henomenon, but little is known its historical backround and iconography. Because of that this work is aimed to track -from the formal and iconographic point of view- the origin of its denomination, by using graphic, pictorial and sculptural sources of European conception, produced during the Viceroyalty in México, as expressions impulsed by the eclessiastical and theological canons from the time. From this investigation, it was possible to find the original dedication. It can be confirmed that the dedication has European reminiscences, but that it was particularly spread in American and New Spain’s territory and, today, it has reconfigured within the society and has taken new forms of aesthetic and simbolic expression.