Banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe

Banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe

Proportion	2:4
Adopted	1810

The Banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe or the popular name for the Hidalgo's Banner is a piece from the National Museum of History of Mexico (MNH). It consists of a piece of cloth painted in oil with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, on each side of which there are two shields, signs and, at the bottom, flowers painted with the same technique, and is characterized by two additional triangles at the bottom. This is just one of the many coats of arms that were captured from the insurgent forces at the beginning of the War of Independence.^[1]

The officially known as the Standard of Hidalgo is popularly identified as the Painting of Hidalgo and is made up of an oil painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe without other decorations, framed and mounted on a wooden pedestal kept in the same National Museum of History, this painting is signed by the New Spanish painter, Andrés López, who made it in 1805 as part of an experiment proposed by the bachelor Bartolache in the mid-eighteenth century, and whose purpose was to verify if human hand could have painted an ayate as occurred with the original, clearing any doubt about its divine origin, a situation that was confirmed by the authorities of the time without any word against it, so this painting is considered one of the few touched reproductions of the Tilma of Tepeyac.^[2]