Sinopsis
Volume and color have gone hand in hand for millennia. Thanks to polychrome, sculpture gained verisimilitude and liveliness, becoming an effective instrument of persuasion from the earliest moments of history. Devotional sculpture, in which the divine took on a tangible and corporeal form, increased its communicative effectiveness when it was fused with color, understood not as a mere decoration but as an essential part of the piece, giving it a closer and more real appearance. . Sculptors and painters worked in unison to create works in which both tasks merged perfectly. At the same time, painted sculpture became a doctrinal weapon whose intensity increased by taking full advantage of its scenic values, whether by forming part of a procession or by being represented on a canvas.
This catalog and the exhibition it accompanies illustrate the tireless search for realism in Spanish art of the Renaissance and Baroque in everything that affected the envelope of the figure, and show from a hundred works, paintings, prints and sculptures the natural integration of painting in sculpture and its triumph in the Hispanic world, highlighting the value of the three-dimensional in the transmission of the sacred message.
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