Una obra de Alonso de Mena y Escalante el Cristo de la Expiración de Adra (Almería)

Abstract

In this paper we review the historiographical studies, and especially those in Almería, which have dealt with Pedro de Mena y Medrano, a native of Adra (Almería). We provide important documentary evidence to show the relationship of the Mena family with Adra, and then proceed to an analysis of the "Dying Christ" (Cristo de la Expiración) to be found in this town. This image is especially significan! since it is the first clearly documented Crucifixion by Alonso de Mena y Escalante. Together with this Christ fi gure, Alonso de Mena contracted to sculpt a St. Sebastian, and sorne supports for this figure. Unfottunately the St. Sebastian, and sorne supports for this figure. Unfortunately the St. Sebastian has been lost, but it would have enriched the variety of iconographic types created by this sculptor.