POLYCHROMED WOOD CORPUS CHRISTI. FLEMISH SCHOOL, MALINES, 16TH CENTURY.

Crucified Christ. Polychrome wood. Flemish school, Mechelen, 16th century. It has faults. Polychrome wood carving that shows the deceased Christ (eyes closed and head fallen) on the cross, with the Crown of Thorns, and a small purity cloth that reveals an anatomy already with a clear classicist influence, as is usual in carvings Renaissance from all over Europe, although somewhat stylized. The face and hair and their pictorialism also correspond to the period, and the presence of three nails instead of four. There are known works produced in Mechelen that, perhaps, were intended to form an iconography known as Déesis. These would be carvings of the Virgin and Saint John, which would flank a Crucified in a very common iconography of the time. Some Crucifieds have also been preserved whose group, in principle, would not be known. Compare the present example with the Christ from the so-called “Jardin clos du Calvaire” of the Hof van Busleyden Museum (inv. GHZ BH0003), or that of the Museum of Fine Arts of Arras (inv. 945.3.45), both linked to Master Cornelis . Weight: 150 grams.

· Size: 7x6x29 cms.