Christ on the column of the Flagellation

The images known in Chile as "santos populares” were carved during the eighteenth throughout the early twentieth centuries, by anonymous craftsmen without specialized training, intended to meet a demand of private piety, in houses and small chapels. These religious objects, like this "Christ on the column of the Flagellation", were produced in the central zone of Chile and exhibit both Hispanic and indigenous roots, because of a cultural-religious syncretism.