The Crucifixion in the art of Alonso Cano

Authors

  • Domingo Sánchez-Mesa Martín Departamento de Historia del Arte. Universidad de Granada.

Keywords:

Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, Religious sculpture, Crucifixes, Religious iconography, Granada School, Cano, Alonso, Lecaroz Christ

Abstract

An idealistic aesthetic is a constant strand in the art of Alonso Cano, most of it religious in nature. Specially significan! examples of this are to be found in the paintings of the Passion and Crucifixion in the Diego Curto collection in Madrid ( 1643), in the San Fernando Royal Academy, in the Hermitage Museum and in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Granada (1652).

In these different versions, and given the religious and emotional nature of the topic and the possibilities offered by the nude, the artist is able to give expression to the tensions operating between a naturalistic approach - even though still expressed in tenebrist style- and a poetic idealism reflected in the play of proportions, light and colours. The results of these tensions are analysed in the present article, which discusses such sculpture as the Lecaroz Christ and the paintings mentioned above, as well as other works. We also offer a comparative study of thc naked Christ in other representations of the Passion and of St. John the Baptist.

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Published

2001-11-01

How to Cite

Sánchez-Mesa Martín, D. (2001). The Crucifixion in the art of Alonso Cano. Cuadernos De Arte De La Universidad De Granada, 32, 105–124. Retrieved from https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/caug/article/view/9019

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Section

Estudios