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Allegory of the Holy Eucharist (Alegoría de la Santa Eucaristía) — Miguel Cabrera
Sanctuary Edition

Allegory of the Holy Eucharist (Alegoría de la Santa Eucaristía)

Date 1750
Collection Museo Blaisten - Colección Andres Blaisten
Subject Saints
Season Ordinary Time
Master 15,242 px
License Public domain

Sizes

18×24 in$140
sheet 18×24 in · image 17.4×24 in · archival margin · 635 dpi
24×36 in$190
sheet 24×36 in · image 24×33.2 in · archival margin · 460 dpi
32×48 in$340
sheet 32×48 in · image 32×44.2 in · archival margin · 345 dpi
40×60 in$480
sheet 40×60 in · image 40×55.3 in · archival margin · 276 dpi
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About this painting

The museum prints no commentary on this panel at all, and the one scholar who has worked on it says our title is wrong. Jorge Luis Merlo Solorio argues it should be called an Allegory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: a dense symbolic scheme of the sapiential constructs the Jesuits had standardised, in which — crucified with the consent of the Father and the Spirit — Christ's heart immolates itself for universal salvation. Cabrera painted it in 1750, in oil, on a sheet of copper barely larger than a page.

Sources: Museo Blaisten (Colección Andrés Blaisten), Mexico City, inv. MC001; read 2026-08-27. · Jorge Luis Merlo Solorio (UNAM), 'Miguel Cabrera y las alegorías de los sacros corazones', Quiroga. Revista de patrimonio iberoamericano 18 (2020): 106-117.

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 15,242 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.