Column; second half of the 17th century.

Column; second half of the seventeenth century.
Carved wood.
It presents faults and losses.
Measurements: 99 x 16 x 8 cm.
Column carved and polychrome with grape leaves and grapes. This type of columns were common in the Spanish Baroque altarpieces from towards the last third of the 17th century and, although their design was already known in the Middle Ages as well as in the Renaissance, they were only common elements in the Baroque from the realization of the bronze Baldachin of the Basilica of San Pedro of the Vatican in Rome by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, between 1623 and 1634. From this moment on, and with numerous decorative variations, the Solomonic column became a characteristic element of architecture and other Baroque arts, appearing in painting, sculpture, etc. The most common was to decorate them with bunches of grapes and vine leaves, in clear allusion to the Body and Blood of Christ, key elements in the Salvation of Humanity, although, already more towards the 18th century, there will be other examples that add leaves and roses or flowers, responding, surely, to a greater relationship with elements of Rococo or to an association with a feminine environment.