El entierro de Cristo.

EL ENTIERRO DE CRISTO


  

Sculpture Card:

-Name: El entierro de Cristo.
- Author: Juan de Juni.
- Year: 1541-1545.
- Style: Renaissance.
- Technique: Sculpture carved in wood.
- Location: National museum of sculpture of San Gregorio in Valladolid(Spain
- General description: El entierro de Cristo is a sculpture that represent the burial of Christ with 7 different sculptures. In the centre Christ is situated and other 6 people are near. The thematic obviously is religious.


El entierro de Cristo of Juan de Juni is a renaissance sculpture. The renaissance was the period in Europe from 14th to 17th century, one of the characteristic to establish renaissance in Europe was the humanism, specially the anthropocentrism, a idea that the human is the centre of the universe and not God, although this sculpture is a religious , is from the renaissance in Spain. In Spain the renaissance was established some years later respect other places of Europe, for example Italy, also Spain have not got some renaissance pieces of art because the gothic was established very strongly, for the catholics kings.


The form used in this sculpture is a group of people that are adoring to Christ
As Juan de Juni was a sculptor that used normally the wood, this sculpture is a wood sculpture. Also the form is cuadrangular with some people kneeling and other people up.
The lights are from upward to backward, simulation the sun and in front of Christ.
It is formed by polychrome wood.
The function is religious and the subject matter is the bible, a situation that the burial of Christ.The figures try to be realistics and it be but other sculptures are more realistics.
Other good spanish sculptor are Vasco de la Zarz, Felipe Vigarny or Bartolomé Ordoñez.


This sculpture is very nice sculpture but I prefer other types of sculpture like The Piety, David…, italian sculptures because are more realistics and in my opinion more difficult to make.