The Body Made of Wood: Figurative: Sculpture in Spain from the Fifteenth Century until Today
by Sara Murado-Arias
While a self-admiring court entrusted commission after commission of indulgent portraiture to Velazquez’s gifted brush, the masses of Spain’s laypeople venerated their Christian God through the work of sculptors. The overwhelming amount of religious sculpture created between the early fifteenth and the late seventeenth century made of this period the pinnacle of the figure in Spanish three-dimensional art. |
