The images of Holy Week in Spanish sculpture of the Seventeenth century
The article is dedicated to the works which objectify moments of Holy Week in Spanish sculpture of the second half of the Seventeenth century. It touches upon the works of Pedro Roldan and Francisco Ruiz Gijon and traces an evolution of religious images during the Seventeenth century. As a result it can be pointed out that images, which belong to the first half of the Seventeenth century, have very naturalistic and expressive style, trying to demonstrate physical pain and suffer, while works of the second half of that period use movement and gestures as main instruments to show emotions of their heroes. Spanish masters try to express deep religious feeling and dignity with which characters pass through their misery.