Novohispanic School. Mexico. 17th - 18th Century. Apparition of the Virgin and her Son to St. Dominic de Guzman and St. Louis Bishop of Toulouse.' Oil on canvas. Oil on canvas. 145,5 x 106 cm. Precious, delicate and very fine execution of the meeting of the Mother of God and her Son with two of her saints who defend her dogma: Saint Dominic of Guzman receiving 'the Rosary or crown of roses' that he ordered her to pray (for the Church of that time - 13th century - they were the 150 psalms of David, which were later replaced by 150 Hail Marys; and Saint Louis Bishop of Toulouse, Prince of Anjou and heir to the Crown of Naples, who was a Franciscan friar and defender of the holy places where Jesus and his mother the Blessed Virgin lived. What Mary and Christ child tell them are 'floral metaphors of late medieval Marian iconography, in the light of patristic and theological sources'. Exactly: 'Rosa vernans charitatis, lilium virginitatis...' (...stella fulgens, Maria, Ora pro nobis Dominum' - what follows and is understood), lyrics from the Codex de Chantilly MS 564, made as a motet for Gregory XI, well known in medieval musical art. A painting made to promote the customs and practices of veneration towards the Virgin Mary, encouraged by the Council of Trent between 1545 and 1563, when a revival of religious life was also generated in the Catholic Church, the Dominicans and the Franciscans, both present in the painting.