Attributed to Luis de Morales (Badajoz circa 1509-1586)
Christ as the Man of Sorrows
Oil on panel
35.9 x 30.1cm (14 1/8 x 11 7/8in)
Private collection
Man of Sorrows is paramount among the
prefigurations of the Messiah identified by Christians in the passages of
Isaiah 53 in the Hebrew Bible. It is also an iconic devotional image that shows
Christ, usually naked above the waist, with the wounds of his Passion prominently
displayed on his hands and side, often crowned with the Crown of Thorns and
sometimes attended by angels. It developed in Europe from the 13th century, and
was especially popular in Northern Europe.
The image continued to spread and develop
iconographical complexity until well after the Renaissance, but the Man of
Sorrows in its many artistic forms is the most precise visual expression of the
piety of the later Middle Ages, which took its character from mystical
contemplation rather than from theological speculation". Together with the
Pietà, it was the most popular of the andachtsbilder-type images of the period
- devotional images detached from the narrative of Christ's Passion, intended
for meditation. More on the Man of Sorrows
Luis de Morales (1512 – 9 May 1586) was a Spanish
painter born in Badajoz, Extremadura. Known as "El Divino", most of
his work was of religious subjects, including many representations of the
Madonna and Child and the Passion.
Influenced,
especially in his early work, by Raphael Sanzio and the Lombard school (fr)
school of Leonardo, he was called by his contemporaries "The Divine
Morales", because of his skill and the shocking realism of his paintings,
and because of the spirituality transmitted by all his work.
His work has been divided by critics into two
periods, an early stage under the influence of Florentine artists such as
Michelangelo and a more intense, more anatomically correct later period similar
to German and Flemish Renaissance painters. More on Luis de Morales
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