Woman of the Apocalypse
A larger version of the work, by the same artist, is venerated in the "Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción" (Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption, Popayán) in Popayán, Colombia. This larger "Virgin", known as "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Popayán" ("Our Lady of the Assumption of Popayán"), strikes a more exaggerated “dancing” pose atop a crescent moon and serpent, and prepares to strike the latter with a lightning bolt, which replaces the earlier work's heavy silver chain. Both of these figures carry the iconographic trappings more of the Woman of the Apocalypse than of an “Immaculate Conception” (the colors [blue and white], the floating) or an “Assumption” (the wings, the upraised arms), although elements of all three Marian "epithets" are present.