Dalí’s “Christ of St. John of the Cross”: mysticism, science and the conquest of the absolute

What do we really see when we look at Salvador Dalí’s iconic Christ of St. John of the Cross – a traditional religious image or a deeper reflection on infinity and the nature of the absolute? What Dalí proposes is not a conventional representation of the Crucifixion, but a radical reinterpretation of one of the most universal symbols of Christianity. Inspired by the mystical drawing attributed to St. John of the Cross, the artist transforms the scene into a suspended vision, silent and alien to the usual iconographic tradition. Here, the Christ of St. John of the Cross does not