École Espagnole ou Coloniale (c. 1700) - La Sainte Face

- Oil and gold pigments on copper.

- The cult of the Santa Faz in the Hispano realm was established as one of the pillars of Baroque piety, articulated around the dialectic between the physical relic and its thaumaturgic reproduction. In the metropolis, the epicenter consolidated at the Monastery of the Santa Faz of Alicante, where the canvas —which tradition says dried Christ’s face on the Way of the Calvary— was historically invoked as a remedy against drought, consolidating an iconography of a “suffering face” that artists like Zurbarán elevated to the category of visual dogma through mystical and ascetic naturalism. This devotion crossed the Atlantic as part of the Counter-Reformation’s knowledge, finding in the American viceroyalties a unique resonance; in New Spain and Peru, the image of the Vera Icon fused with local sensibilities, becoming a symbol of the real presence of the divinity in newly evangelized territories. The Santa Faz not only decorated colonial altarpieces and sacristies, but functioned as a “sacred portrait” that legitimized the direct connection between American believers and the Passion drama, acting as a visual bridge between Spanish austerity and the exuberance of overseas Baroque.

- Dimensions of the image without frame: 12 x 18.5 cm / 22 x 29 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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