RUIZ GIJÓN, Francisco
(b. 1653, Utrera, d. 1720, Sevilla)

Dying Christ (El Cachorro)

1682
Polychrome wood, height 184 cm
Iglesia del Patrocinio, Seville

Francisco Ruiz Gijón was the last great master of the seventeenth century in Seville. He created the Dying Christ, popularly called El Cachorro. Christ is shown still alive, but he turns his gaze beseechingly upwards, while his loincloth appears to move in the wind.




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