The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza reveals hitherto unnoticed connections between the sculptures and contemporary liturgical sources. She investigates how and why Fernández and his patrons manipulated these images in connection with the religious literature of the t

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Ilenia Colón Mendoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the School of Visual Arts and Design of the University of Central Florida, USA.

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Contents: Introduction; The iconography of the Cristo yacente as Eucharistic symbol; Juni, Becerra, and Rincón: sculptural precedents for the Cristo yacente; Gregorio Fernández: patronage, style, technique, and the production of Cristos yacentes; Teatro Sacro: religious thought, ceremony, and procession in Counter-Reformation Spain; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.