Christ on the Cross

Is directly related to the model created for the large canvas he painted for the chapterhouse of the laymen of the same charterhouse, which is now in the Granada Museum. A painting praised by Palomino, of which he notes that “it is in perspective, with regard to the arms of the cross coming out on a golden semicircle, so that it seems more like a sculptural effigy than a brush painting”. Our small crucifix corresponds to the prototype known as the ‘cell cross’ and could perhaps be the one mentioned in his inventory of goods, for which Fray Pedro de Ávila – of the Dominican Convent of Yepes – owed him thirty reales.