Cristo de la agonías o cristo yacente.

Sculpture card:

Title/name: Christ of the agonies.
Author: Gregorio Fernández.
Year: 1576-1636.
Style: Spanish Baroque.
Technique: polychomed wood.
Location: National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, Spain.
General descript: This is a piece of sculpture maked by Gregorio Fernández between 1576-1636 made to order from Duke fo Lerma.

This work was made by Gregorio Fernández, Gregorio was a Spanish Baroque sculptor, the greatest exponent of the Spanish school of sculpture. Heir to the expressiveness of Alonso Berruguete and Juan de Juni, knew bringing these influences classicism of Pompeyo Leoni and Juan de Arfe, so that his art was freed progessively from prevailing Mannerism in his time to become one of the the paradigms of the Spanish Baroque.

This sculpture, mainly religious, of which recumbent of Christ is a clear exmaple, meant a radical break with the nuance realism of Renaissance classicism, to focus on an extraordinarily heightened drama. Its main objetive will be to promote and enhance the religiosity of the faithful trought contemplation of martyrdom and death of Jesus, the Virgin pain, scenes of the life of saints, etc, all with a poignancy without limits.

One of the most important features that has this piece of sculpture is the pathosm showing us a sense of print depicting the pain of sculpture, in this case it is perceived very well since Christ has set eyes open that allows us to recognize that sesation.