Living Retablo: Saint Rita
Creator, Director
The Barnes Foundation 2015-2016
Enter the Lower Level garden and be transported inside of one of the New Mexican retablos in The Barnes collection. This performance piece was created in response to Pedro Antonio Fresquis' depiction of Saint Rita of Cascia found on the north wall of room 11.
A retablo is a devotional painting utilizing iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. The Latin etymology of this Spanish word means "board behind" and refers to its placement behind an altar.
Watch this looping performance piece as you might view a painting from outside the garden's glass walls, or enter inside, and make an offering to Saint Rita in exchange for a story and a song.
