The Use Of Lead In Baroque Devotional Sculpture In Spain. Notes On The Intervention Process Of A Sculpture Representing A Triumphant Child Jesus
Abstract
While wood carving—polychromed and gilded—is the most significant technique in Sevillian Baroque sculpture, the use of lead as a constitutive material was also frequently employed in Baroque sculpture of small and medium format to represent devotional images, resulting in high-quality replicas.
This article aims to reveal and disseminate the existence of such sculptures, paying special attention to the materiality of the work and analyzing the intervention of a prototype lead cast model of a Child Jesus Triumphant, whose conservation is poor, probably due to the peculiar nature of its constitutive material.
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