Summary: Analyzing images of the dead Christ produced in the seventeenth century by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza investigates how and why Fernández and his patrons manipulated the content of 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 images of the dead Christ as not only part of a larger sculptural group but instead 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. Combining study of the sculptural works with that of liturgical sources, she reveals the connection between the written word and the sculpted work of art. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the author links Fernández's sculptural programme with the strategic objectives of major patrons of the period, such as the Duke of Lerma and King Philip III of Spain, both fervent defenders of the Catholic faith. (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)

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