French or Spanish Gothic school; 14th century.

French or Spanish Gothic school; 14th century.
"Christ crucified".
Carved wood.
Remains of polychrome.
It presents faults in the carving and polychromy, important losses and damages caused by xylophages.
Measurements: 95 x 23 x 17 cm; 117 cm (height with base).
This expressive carving offers us the suffering figure of Christ on the cross. The artist has represented Jesus naked, dressed only with the "perizonium" or cloth of purity that covers his hips, and shows a notable interest in the work of the anatomy, representing with considerable detail, although with certain geometrization, the muscles and joints of the character. It is a Christ, on the other hand, who was nailed to the cross, not preserved, by three nails. Two of them are missing. The third nail pierced both feet, which we can still see today superimposed. In this way the artist of the Gothic period overcomes the stillness, the orthogonality, typical of the Romanesque carving, where each foot was nailed with a nail, and manages to print movement, dynamism, to the figure, because by superimposing the feet a whole series of curves and twists are also generated from the hips.
The naturalistic and expressive style of the carving allows us to contextualize the piece in the 14th century, a time when the influences of the last international Gothic and the new Flemish realism penetrated with force in the Hispanic territory, leading art towards a new aesthetic where expression and naturalism, the imitation of physical reality, are increasingly important values.