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Spanish sculpture probably never reached such a degree of expressionism as in the art of Juan de Juni, whose French origins were swept aside by the feverish breath of Castilian art. The faces are violent and convulsed; thick, animated curls twist and twine in the turbulent hair and beards. This Christ has in truth experienced his Passion in human flesh, and his face retains an indelible memory of it. This Romantic conception, emphasizing the tragic sense of sorrow and death, is profoundly Spanish, foreshadowing already the Baroque art of Spain.
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