Pieta

…Hernández in sculptures like the Pieta (1617) revealed an emotional realism more Gothic than Baroque; but in the figures of Manuel Pereira there is a clear-cut monumentality and intense concentration comparable to that of painter Francisco de Zurbarán. Both were active in Castile, though the main centre of sculptural activity…

Veronica” (1614) and the “Pietà” (1617), were once part of sculptural groups for pasos, or floats with scenes from the Passion, which are carried by Spanish religious confraternities during Holy Week processions. One of his iconographical innovations was that of depicting the dead Christ stretched out on a sheet,…