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Saint Mark (San Marcos)

Damià Formentc. 1530

Museo de Zaragoza

Museo de Zaragoza
Zaragoza, Spain

This sculpture is one of a pair. The other depicts Saint Luke. Both come from the Carmen Calzado Convent in Zaragoza. Both faces are natural-looking and the bodies are at an angle. They may have been made for the sides of an altarpiece to be seen head-on as the backs have not been sculpted. Some styling, like the hair chiseling and less voluminous beards, is different from Forment's 1520s production. This suggests that these sculptures are from a later date when his wider workshop may have been involved.

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  • Title: Saint Mark (San Marcos)
  • Creator: Damián Forment
  • Date: c. 1530
  • Physical Dimensions: 24 x 85 cm
  • Type: Sculpture
  • Rights: Gobierno de Aragón
  • External Link: CERES MCU
  • Medium: Chiselled alabaster
  • Photograph: José Garrido Lapeña
  • Cultural context: Renaissance
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