Crucifix; Indo-Portuguese School; XVII century.

Crucifix; Indo-Portuguese School; XVII century.
Ivory.
Attached CITES.
Measurements: 24 x 19 x 3 cm; 72 x 37 x 17 cm (cross).
The stylistic characteristics of this ivory Christ respond clearly to the characteristics of the Indo-Portuguese school that developed in the geographical area of the Portuguese colony centered in Goa (India). The school has been studied several years ago in the pioneering and fundamental works of Ferrao Távores de Távora, continued in more recent times by several others such as those of Nuno Vasallo or Pedro Díaz. They served as a basis for ours when we have dealt with the numerous representation of this school that Spain and countries of Latin America that once belonged to the Spanish crown possess.
In the colonial world of the Catholic Empires, be it the Portuguese or the Spanish, the iconographic model imposed in principle by the Renaissance that is enriched in the Baroque in its two basic representations of the Dead or Dying Christ and the living or Expiring Christ, especially exalted in the years of the XVII century by the Italian artists of the category of Algardi and Bernini (6) is spread. The latter also dominates in the colonies as witnessed by the numerous known examples in which through the years of the seventeenth century, perhaps in this case by the Flemish influence of a Rubens, raise their arms above the horizontal.