Spanish, 13th/14th century

There is overall wear and loss to the painted surface consistent with age. There are splits at the back consistent with material. The joints at the arms are loose and have caused the paint and gesso to crack around them. A further joint is visible at the neck which has particularly opened up at the back. There are some holes from earlier mounts to the back and the little finger of the right arm is lost.
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The defined rib cage and long perizonium with broad fold at the hips together with the angular crossed feet are to be found on earlier romanesque corpora dating from the late 12th century. However this style continues and the treatment to the head with the hair falling onto His shoulders are indicative of a date into the thirteenth or early fourteenth centuries.

RELATED LITERATURE
P. Thoby, Le Crucifix des Origines au Concile de Trente, Nantes 1959, no 257, pl. CXIX