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Author: Ilenia Colón Mendoza
ISBN: 9781409430681
Format: Hardback
Extent: 202pp
Price: £60.00
Publication: May 2015
Publisher: Ashgate
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Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández,
author Ilenia Colón Mendoza investigates how and why the artist and his patrons manipulated
these images in connection with the religious literature of the time to produce striking images
that moved the faithful to devotion. In so doing, she contributes new findings to the topic of
Spanish sacred sculpture.
The author re-examines these sculptures not only in the context of a larger sculptural group
but also as independent sculptures that were intended as powerful aids to contemplation and
devotion as was prescribed by the writings of San Juan de la Cruz and Luis de Granada.
