Christ of Humility and Patience

This work's background is found in late German gothic sculptures known as "Christus in der Rast" or Pensive Christ. From those sculptures Dürer took his model for making the engravings that, after crossing the Atlantic, became an important artistic model in New Spain. After a short time, the Spanish realms in America produced sculptures with combined technology – European and American – of notable quality and expression, such as the "Señor de la piedra fría" (Lord of the Cold Stone) which is venerated in the Canary Islands. This work must be understood as a synthesis of the physical and moral pain of the Passion.