École Espagnole ou Coloniale (XVIII) - La Sainte Face

- Oil and gold pigments on copper.

- The cult of the Holy Face in the Hispanic world 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 Holy Face of Alicante, where the painting — which, according to tradition, wiped Christ’s face on the Way to 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 Counter-Reformation luggage, finding in the American viceroyalties a unique resonance; in New Spain and Peru, the image of the Vera Icon merged with local sensibilities, becoming a symbol of the real presence of the divinity in newly evangelized territories. The Holy Face not only decorated colonial altars and sacristies but also functioned as a “sacred portrait” that legitimized the direct connection between American faithful and the drama of the Passion, acting as a visual bridge between Hispanic austerity and the exuberance of overseas Baroque.

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

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