Editing Our Lady of Guadalupe (section)

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[[File:Miguel_Cabrera_-_Altarpiece_of_the_Virgin_of_Guadalupe_with_Saint_John_the_Baptist,_Fray_Juan_de_Zumárraga_and_Juan_Diego_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|thumb|right|The altar image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with [[St. John the Baptist]], [[Juan de Zumárraga]] and [[St. Juan Diego]] by [[Miguel Cabrera (painter)|Miguel Cabrera]]]]

The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is of a life-sized, dark-haired, olive-skinned young woman, standing with her head slightly inclined to her right, eyes downcast, and her hands held before her in prayer. She wears a pink dress ornamented with a floral design, a dark ribbon tied above her waist, and a blue-green mantle over all. The mantle is edged with gold and has golden stars throughout. She stands on a crescent moon, which is supported by an angel with eagle wings. She is surrounded by a golden sunburst.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Jody Brant |title=The Image of Guadalupe: Myth or Miracle? |date=1983 |publisher=Doubleday & Company, Inc. |location=Garden City, New York |isbn=0-385-15971-4 |page=3 |url=https://archive.org/details/imageofguadalupe0000smit}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Moffitt |first1=John F. |title=Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Painting, the Legend and the Reality |date=2006 |publisher=McFarland and Company, Inc. |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=978-0-7864-2667-6 |page=23 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourladyofguadalu00moff}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Carl |last2=Chávez |first2=Eduardo |author1-link=Carl A. Anderson |title=Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization of Love |date=2009 |publisher=Doubleday Religion |location=New York |isbn=978-0-385-52772-9 |pages=34–35 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourladyofguadalu0000ande}}</ref>

The tilma now measures approximately {{convert|1.72|by|1.07|m|in}},{{sfn|Chávez|2006|p=19}} though sources vary by a few centimeters, and it shows signs of having been trimmed from the original size. It is made of two pieces of fabric sewn together with cotton thread.<ref name="Peterson 2002">{{cite journal |last1=Peterson |first1=Jeanette Favros |title=Creating the Virgin of Guadalupe: The Cloth, the Artist, and Sources in Sixteenth-Century New Spain |journal=[[The Americas (journal)|The Americas]] |date=April 2005 |volume=61 |issue=4 |page=573n3 |doi=10.1353/tam.2005.0091 |jstor=4490973 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4490973}}</ref> There is a large crack running vertically through the middle of the image, as well as smaller horizontal cracks, caused by the image being folded at some point.<ref name="Gomez interview"/>

The image is currently housed in a golden frame above the main altar of the [[Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe]] in [[Mexico City]], where it has been since the new basilica was completed in 1976.<ref>{{cite book |author1=National Geographic Society |title=Sacred Places of a Lifetime |date=2008 |isbn=978-1-4262-0336-7 |page=205 |url=https://archive.org/details/sacredplacesofli0000unse_d8q7/page/204/mode/2up}}</ref>