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<   Nationalized modern version of the Virgin's "Apparition" to three fishermen in Nipe Bay motif with Cuban flag in the background. Cuban Heritage Collection, Richter Library, University of Miami.

 

Below: Other modern versions of the Virgin of El Cobre's "Apparition to three fishermen" motif: religious kitsch in the form of holy cards and plastic cast images; a modernist painting entitled "Virgen del Cobre" by Carlos Enríquez Gómez (1933); and a popular crafts' image (courtesy Nereida García).

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Carlos Enríquez Gómez, " Virgen del Cobre" in Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Cuba

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Juan Moreno's Deposition on the Virgin's Apparition, 1687