Head of Christ
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Wooden sculpture in lime essence, polychromed with the technique of burnished milk tempera; height 33 cm on a later turned base of 12 cm, total height 45 cm. There are integrative restorations to the polychromy in some areas of the face, performed with the chromatic scale method. The work can be dated to the passing years between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The carving reveals an exquisitely painterly formal ideation and the hand of an artist master of the classical form and at the same time of the Mannerist request to evolve it in a dynamic and emotional direction (1), probably also by virtue of an experience in Rome. It is difficult not to associate