In this post I show a sculpture in Seville, which is in the Capilla de San Andrés de la Catedral de Sevilla .
is the superb
Holy Christ of Clemency , a crucifix of the most beautiful and perfect Baroque English, this is the masterpiece, for many, the imager Juan Martinez Montanes, done in polychrome wood and a height of 1.90 cm, to say the polychromy is not the author, but is of great master painter Francisco Pacheco, who was a teacher and son of Velazquez.
The author shows us the living Christ before expiring, with 4 spikes and a very realistic anatomical models inspired by classical sculpture, we see that the body has few symbols of sorrow as we see in the small blood at low tension the body and the serene beauty that shows his face. The loincloth is complicated often designed by bending of the shroud, a very natural and a great movement, sculpture by design calls to prayer and meditation. 
is an image made in 1603 for a particular call Mateo Vázquez de Leca for that particular chapel was in the Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas , La Cartuja, where he until 1836 from the Chapel of the Chalices the Cathedral of Seville and years later at the Chapel of St. Andrew, where he is currently.
As a curiosity for many years became known as Christ of the Chalices shower because they were in chapel, and also comment as a curiosity that once was a procession through the streets of Seville on one of the Holy Burial Magnos organized.
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