Dos esculturas del Museo de Arte Sacro de Corella

Abstract

At the Arrese Foundation’s Museum of Sacred Art in Corella, two sculptures of great dramatism are exhibited: a Christ tied to the column, by Juan de Biniés, and an Ecce Homo, still anonymous.
A comparison has been made of the sculptures with the written descriptions of the Turin Shroud and with a number of contemporary engravings, to try to evaluate the truthfulness of the wounds and the eventual source of inspiration of the sculptors on other plastic representations of their time. A description is also made of both sculptures, specially of their anatomic particulars and of the way Christ’s wounds due to the flagellation and the crowning of thorns are shown.
Although the sculptors and painters were well acquainted with...