Antón Maria Maragliano (1664-1739).

Antón Maria Maragliano (1664-1739).
"Christ".
Polychrome carved wood.
Measurements: 67 x 37 x 27 cm.
Round sculptural work representing the Crucified Christ. The figure of Jesus is still alive as his eyes are open. The work stands out with a stark anatomy; nailed with three nails; the head slightly inclined to his left side; the large purity cloth, with abundant broken folds, is knotted at his right hip, letting one of its ends fall. The head is oval in shape, with long, wavy hair, which falls over his right shoulder, with a crown of thorns braided in large skeins on his forehead, closed eyes, almost straight eyebrows, long nose, small mouth and a sharp beard. His canon is elongated, the torso of which clearly marks the ribs; and the limbs are rather slender, with the hands tending to close, and the feet crossed. From a stylistic point of view, this is an 18th-century sculpture, as evidenced by the marked thinness of Christ, the forced curvature of the feet, the dramatism of the face, and the large size of the cloth of purity, with abundant broken folds, as features typical of a late Baroque language.
In any case, this is a splendid Crucified Christ of the Italian school, of considerable size, which stands out for its good state of preservation, the expressiveness of the face, the treatment of the hair, and the originality of the purity cloth, with its ample aerial folds, as can be seen in other Flemish examples of the time, both in painting and sculpture.